US Patent Issued to Canon on May 12 for "Image capturing apparatus, method for controlling same, and storage medium for controlling power supply to a load circuit according to the state of the apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,906, issued on May 12, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image capturing apparatus, method for controlling same, and storage medium for controlling power supply to a load circuit according to the state of the apparatus" was invented by Yudai Itoi (Tokyo), Yuki Tsujimoto (Tokyo) and Takuma Iwagami (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a load circuit, a power source, a storage device, an obtaining unit that obtains a value of a resistance of the storage device, and a control unit. The control unit, in a first state, performs control so that power is supplied from the power source to the load circuit wi...