ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,123, issued on March 31, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"System consisting of electronic device and notification apparatus, control method thereof, and electronic device and notification apparatus" was invented by Yosuke Mine (Tokyo) and Takashi Ichimiya (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an electronic device having an image sensor that performs shooting by controlling an exposure period of performing photoelectric conversion on incident light and accumulating charge by using electronic shutter and a notification apparatus capable of communicating with the electronic device. Information indicating...