US Patent Issued to Canon on March 31 for "Control device for imaging device, imaging device, imaging method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,137, issued on March 31, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Control device for imaging device, imaging device, imaging method, and storage medium" was invented by Takaaki Fukui (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device includes an object detection unit configured to detect an object from an image acquired from an imaging unit and a control unit configured to control an automated imaging process of the imaging unit on the basis of a result of detecting the object. The control unit has a first automated imaging mode in which the automated imaging process is performed using a focal length in a range of a prescrib...