ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,120, issued on April 21, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Control apparatus, method of controlling control apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Hayato Shirai (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus includes: a display-control-unit that can display on a displayer a screen in the form of tabs including tabs and corresponding menus, and that displays on the displayer a screen including a menu corresponding to a predetermined tab in accordance with selection of the predetermined tab on the screen; a locking-control-unit that locks a menu corresponding to at least one tab out of the menus corresp...