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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 11, 2008
Applicant:
Hiroyuki Ohsawa, Chiba, JP;
Inventor:
Hiroyuki Ohsawa, Chiba, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/262 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An imaging apparatus includes a zoom operation unit operable to perform a zoom operation, an extraction unit configured to extract a main object from an captured image plane, and a control unit configured to control a zoom speed by using the size of a region occupied by the main object with respect to the captured image plane and operation information of the zoom operation unit.