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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2024
Canon U.s.a., Inc., Melville, NY (US);
Hung Khei Huang, Irvine, CA (US);
Stephanie Ann Suzuki, Irvine, CA (US);
CANON U.S.A., INC., Melville, NY (US);
Abstract
A control apparatus for determining an amount of zoom to be applied in an image frame is provided and incudes identifying an imaging target in an image being captured by an image capture device, determining, based on a current imaging condition, an amount of zoom applied by the image capture device ensuring the imaging target is substantially centered in an image frame, modifying the determined zoom amount in response to a determination that that the determined zoom amount would cause the image capture device to exceed a directional movement limit, providing a control command to the image capture device that controls the image capture device to obtain an image of the imaging target using one of the determined amount of zoom or the modified zoom amount, and controlling the image capture device to capture an image of the imaging target at the zoom level included in the control command.