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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2022
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Kawakami, Kanagawa, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image pickup apparatus which is capable of reliably detecting a subject using a wireless tag and shooting the subject with a desirable composition and facial expression. The image pickup apparatus has an image pickup unit, a changing unit that changes an orientation of an optical axis of the image pickup unit, a receiving unit that receives a radio wave transmitted from an external wireless tag to detect a position of the wireless tag, and a subject detecting unit that detects a subject from image data output from the image pickup unit. When the subject is detected, whether or not to perform shooting is determined based on the image data. When the optical axis of the image pickup unit faces toward the wireless tag, a threshold value for detecting the subject is set to a smaller value than an initial value thereof.