US Patent Issued to CANON on April 21 for "Image capturing apparatus and control method thereof, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,137, issued on April 21, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image capturing apparatus and control method thereof, and storage medium" was invented by Shohei Tozawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Daisuke Ito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing apparatus comprises an image sensor; and a control unit that, in a case where a first shooting mode is set, controls to perform shooting a plurality of times with the image sensor while changing exposure to obtain a plurality of images, and in a case where a second shooting mode different from the first shooting mode is set, controls to amplify an image signal obtained by performi...