ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,698, issued on June 3, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Electronic device and control method thereof" was invented by Takayuki Hoshina (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shotaro Yanai (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an electronic device, a memory temporarily holds image data output from an image sensor during a first operation instruction instructing preparation for shooting is output, and an acquisition unit repeatedly acquires determination information used for estimating a level of possibility that a second operation instruction for instructing recording of a shot image will be output. A controller controls image shooting...