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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2021
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Seiji Ogawa, Tokyo, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image capture control apparatus comprises a touch detector being capable of detecting a touch operation, a tracking unit that tracks a tracking target in a live view image captured by an image capturing unit, and a display control unit that, in response to the touch detector detecting a movement operation of moving a touch position, carries out control to display an indicator at a position, in a display, that is based on a movement amount of the movement operation, and a control unit configured to, in response to a predetermined amount of time elapsing after the touch for making the movement operation has been released, carry out control such that a tracking target determined on the basis of the position of the indicator is tracked by the tracking unit.