US Patent Issued to CANON on March 17 for "Electronic apparatus and communication apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,020, issued on March 17, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Electronic apparatus and communication apparatus" was invented by Keita Nagai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus comprises a sound reception unit that receives sound data from a sound transmission device by a wireless communication unit, a sound transmission unit that transmits sound data to a sound reception device by a wireless communication unit, and a control unit that switches, in accordance with an operation state of the electronic apparatus, between a first operation of receiving the sound data from the sound transmission device and trans...