US 12,081,860 B2
Image pickup apparatus
Takayuki Hoshina, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 16, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/185,297.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-046958 (JP), filed on Mar. 23, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0308744 A1, Sep. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 23/63 (2023.01); G06V 10/25 (2022.01); H04N 23/60 (2023.01); H04N 23/65 (2023.01); H04N 23/67 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 23/632 (2023.01) [G06V 10/25 (2022.01); H04N 23/64 (2023.01); H04N 23/651 (2023.01); H04N 23/67 (2023.01); G06V 2201/07 (2022.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image pickup apparatus comprising:
a first image sensor configured to perform imaging;
at least one processor and a memory coupled to the at least one processor, the memory having instructions that, when executed by the processor, perform operations as a control unit configured to perform precapture imaging, when acquiring a first imaging instruction, to cause the first image sensor to repeatedly perform imaging, and causes the first image sensor to perform main imaging when acquiring a second imaging instruction during the precapture imaging; and
a first detecting unit configured to detect a change in a main object to be focused, and to output information about the change in the main object,
wherein the control unit changes control in the precapture imaging using the information about the change in the main object.