US Patent Issued to CANON on May 26 for "Main subject determining apparatus, image capturing apparatus, main subject determining method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,849, issued on May 26, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Main subject determining apparatus, image capturing apparatus, main subject determining method, and storage medium" was invented by Tomohiro Nishiyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a main subject determining apparatus. A subject detecting unit detects a plurality of subjects from a first image. An obtaining unit obtains posture information of each of the plurality of subjects. For each of the plurality of subjects, a calculating unit calculates, on the basis of the posture information of the subject, a reliability corresponding to a likelihood that t...