US Patent Issued to Canon on March 17 for "Information processing apparatus, control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,188, issued on March 17, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Kazuto Sakauchi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an information processing apparatus. A first detection unit detects that a predetermined operation has been performed with respect to the information processing apparatus. A second detection unit detects a change in a position of the information processing apparatus from when the predetermined operation was performed. A control unit performs control to cause the information processing apparatus to transitio...