ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,247, issued on July 14, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus, communication system, method, and storage medium for controlling exposure of imaging apparatus" was invented by Atsuto Sugaya (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus includes at least one processor performing operations as follows: outputting instruction information to an imaging apparatus, the instruction information including (a) an instruction to make a transition of a imaging range of the imaging apparatus from a first range to a second range, and (b) a target value of each brightness parameter at time of imaging in the second rang...