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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2021
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Shogo Fujiwara, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image capturing control apparatus includes: a line-of-sight detection unit detecting a line-of-sight position of a user; a setting unit setting a region, in which specific processing related to image capturing is performed, in accordance with the detected line-of-sight position; and a control unit implementing control such that in a case of a first state, where a change of at least a predetermined amount does not occur in a captured image and an imaging unit, during recording a moving image, a region in which the specific processing is performed based on the line-of-sight position of the user is not set, and that in a case of a second state, which is different from the first state and satisfies a predetermined condition, a region in which the specific processing is performed based on the line-of-sight position of the user, detected by the line-of-sight detection unit, is set.