US Patent Issued to CANON U.S.A. on March 31 for "Apparatus and methods for adjusting zoom of a PTZ camera" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,129, issued on March 31, was assigned to CANON U.S.A. INC. (Melville, N.Y.).

"Apparatus and methods for adjusting zoom of a PTZ camera" was invented by Hung Khei Huang (Irvine, Calif.) and Stephanie Ann Suzuki (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus for determining an amount of zoom to be applied in an image frame is provided and incudes identifying an imaging target in an image being captured by an image capture device, determining, based on a current imaging condition, an amount of zoom applied by the image capture device ensuring the imaging target is substantially centered in an image frame, modifying ...