US 12,141,999 B2
Shooting control apparatus, image capturing apparatus, shooting control method, and storage medium
Yu Inagaki, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Aug. 1, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/816,636.
Application 17/816,636 is a continuation of application No. 17/173,719, filed on Feb. 11, 2021, granted, now 11,455,743.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-026471 (JP), filed on Feb. 19, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0366595 A1, Nov. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G06T 7/50 (2017.01); H04N 9/73 (2023.01); H04N 23/61 (2023.01); H04N 23/67 (2023.01); H04N 23/69 (2023.01); H04N 23/959 (2023.01)
CPC G06T 7/70 (2017.01) [G06T 7/50 (2017.01); H04N 23/61 (2023.01); H04N 23/959 (2023.01); G06T 2207/20076 (2013.01); H04N 9/73 (2013.01); H04N 23/672 (2023.01); H04N 23/69 (2023.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus, comprising:
one or more processors; and
a first memory coupled to the one or more processors storing instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to function as:
a detection unit configured to, based on captured image data, detect a subject area that includes a subject; and
a control unit configured to perform shooting control of an image capturing unit based on the captured image data and area-by-area weights corresponding to at least one of a subject type and a subject state with respect to the subject area detected by the detection unit in the captured image data, wherein
the shooting control is focus control, and
the control unit:
identifies, in the subject area, a first area with area-by-area weights equal to or higher than a threshold;
based on first data corresponding to the first area among the data corresponding to the subject area, calculates a first plurality of defocus amounts corresponding to a plurality of positions in the first area;
selects, from among the first plurality of defocus amounts, a first defocus amount that has a reliability degree equal to or higher than a reliability degree threshold; and
performs the focus control based on the first defocus amount.