US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 23 for "Electronic apparatus, method for controlling electronic apparatus, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,854, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Electronic apparatus, method for controlling electronic apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Yoshihiro Funatsu (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus calls stored settings related to an automatic focus (AF) area and a type of object to be detected based on a user's specific operation, and performs object detection processing and focus detection processing based on the called settings."

The patent was filed on March 8, 2023, under Application No. 18/180,690.

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