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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2022
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshihiro Funatsu, Kanagawa, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A control method for an electronic apparatus includes tracking a tracking target included in an image, moving a tracking start position, starting tracking of the tracking target from the tracking start position, stopping tracking of the tracking target, controlling first processing for, at the stopping of tracking, setting the tracking start position to a position at which the tracking target has been tracked until immediately before the stopping of tracking and second processing for, at the stopping of tracking, setting the tracking start position to a previously determined tracking start position, and selecting one of the first processing and the second processing according to a state obtained at the stopping of tracking and performing the selected first or second processing.