ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,388, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image capturing apparatus and control method" was invented by Riho Ido (Kanagawa, Japan), Toshimichi Ise (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kazuya Kitamura (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing apparatus comprises an image capturing unit, a detection unit configured to detect a user operation performed with respect to image information being displayed on a display unit, and a control unit configured to disable the user operation when at least externally inputted predetermined image information is being displayed on the display unit."
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