US Patent Issued to Canon on Dec. 2 for "Image capturing apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium storing control program therefor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,969, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image capturing apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium storing control program therefor" was invented by Takayuki Hoshina (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hiroshi Toriumi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing apparatus capable of reducing a loss of a desired image capturing opportunity. The image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing unit that outputs image data, a memory device, and a processor. In a first operation mode in an pre-capturing mode, the processor displays the image data as a live view image on a display unit, holds pr...