US Patent Issued to Canon on Oct. 14 for "Control apparatus, method, and non-transitory storage medium for smart tracking control" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,730, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus, method, and non-transitory storage medium for smart tracking control" was invented by Ryo Tanaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus includes a control unit configured to control an imaging range of an imaging unit to track a tracking target, and a setting unit configured to set a search area based on a range set by a user, a user operation for controlling the imaging range, or a past position of the tracking target, wherein the control unit controls the imaging range to search for the tracking target in the search area in a case whe...