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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2023
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Tatsuya Hanayama, Tokyo, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A control apparatus controls an operation of an image capturing apparatus that obtains, through automatic shooting with a variable composition, an image to be sold to a user. The apparatus obtains demand information indicating demand tendencies of a user in relation to compositions of a subject, sets, based on the obtained demand information, frequencies of adoption to shooting respectively for a plurality of types of compositions that have been set in advance, and determines a composition to be used in shooting of the subject by the image capturing apparatus based on the frequencies of adoption that have been set respectively for the plurality of types of compositions. The demand information is based on purchase information related to a purchase of images by the user.