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Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2023

Filed:

Oct. 06, 2020
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Koji Sudo, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G03B 7/12 (2021.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G03B 17/56 (2021.01); G03B 17/14 (2021.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 7/12 (2013.01); G03B 17/14 (2013.01); G03B 17/563 (2013.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G03B 2213/025 (2013.01);
Abstract

An imaging apparatus includes an image capturing unit, a shutter button with which to give an image capturing instruction, a specific operation member, a reception unit configured to receive a line-of-sight input that is an input of a position based on a line of sight of a user, and a control unit configured to perform control so that, in a case where a predetermined operation on the specific operation member is not performed while a specific operation on the shutter button is being performed, a specified position is not moved based on the line-of-sight input in a case where a line-of-sight position of the line-of-sight input moves, and in a case where the predetermined operation on the specific operation member is performed while the specific operation on the shutter button is being performed, the specified position is moved based on the line-of-sight position of the line-of-sight input.


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