US 12,279,042 B2
Image capturing apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium
Naoki Iwasaki, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Aug. 18, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/452,198.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-133519 (JP), filed on Aug. 24, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0073522 A1, Feb. 29, 2024
Int. Cl. H04N 23/67 (2023.01); H04N 23/61 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 23/675 (2023.01) [H04N 23/61 (2023.01); H04N 23/672 (2023.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image capturing apparatus comprising:
at least one processor or circuit configured to function as:
an object detection unit configured to detect an object from an image signal obtained by an image sensor;
a discriminating unit configured to discriminate a type of the object being detected;
a setting unit configured to set a focus detection region divided in a plurality of sub-regions corresponding to the region of the object being detected;
a focus detection unit configured to detect information about an in-focus position for each of the plurality of sub-regions;
a prediction unit configured to predict an in-focus position according to a movement of the object in a depth direction; and
a selection unit configured to select an in-focus position of which sub-region among the plurality of sub-regions to employ as the in-focus position of the object, in accordance with the type of the object and the in-focus position being predicted.