US Patent Issued to NIKON on May 13 for "Electronic apparatus, camera, and program for selecting features on an image" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,989, issued on May 13, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electronic apparatus, camera, and program for selecting features on an image" was invented by Toshiaki Maeda (Yokohama, Japan), Yuki Kita (Kawasaki, Japan), Noriyoshi Tachikawa (Kawasaki, Japan), Tetsuto Kawazu (Kawasaki, Japan), Hiroshi Takeuchi (Tokyo), Ikuya Saito (Kawasaki, Japan), Toru Kijima (Yokohama, Japan) and Masayuki Saito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus includes a detection unit that detects eyes from an image, a selection unit that selects one eye from the eyes detected by the detection unit, an operation unit that accepts an opera...