ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,035, issued on July 14, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photography support device, image-capturing device, and control method of image-capturing device" was invented by Shigeru Toriihara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photography support device is configured to support photography of N types (where N is an integer greater than 1) of photography target parts defined in advance. The photography support device includes at least one memory and at least one processor which function as: a determining unit configured to determine, with respect to a plurality of images obtained by photography of inside of an oral cav...