ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,598, issued on July 14, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus and control method executed by image capture system" was invented by Keisuke Matsuno (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus of an image capture system that performs image capture using an image displayed by a display apparatus as a background is provided. The control apparatus assigns capturing periods of different timings to respective image capture apparatuses of the image capture system and controls the image capture apparatuses so that each of the image capture apparatuses performs image capture during the capturing period ...