US Patent Issued to CANON on March 17 for "Image pickup apparatus controlling an operating mode, its control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,187, issued on March 17, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image pickup apparatus controlling an operating mode, its control method, and storage medium" was invented by Daisuke Enomoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup apparatus includes a first imaging unit configured to acquire an object image, a second imaging unit configured to acquire an image of the image pickup apparatus in an imaging area on a rear side of the image pickup apparatus, a motion detector configured to detect a motion of the image pickup apparatus, a first determining unit configured to determine that an imaging preparation opera...