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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2019
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Shunsuke Chino, Wako, JP;
Toshiyuki Dobashi, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23212 (2013.01);
Abstract
A control apparatus () includes a divider () that divides an image into a plurality of areas, a calculator () that calculates an evaluation value of each of the plurality of areas, and a focus adjuster () that performs focusing based on the evaluation value of each of the plurality of areas.