US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 1 for "Camera control device, storage medium, and camera control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,713, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Camera control device, storage medium, and camera control method" was invented by Kentaro Kogure (Tokyo) and Jun Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera control device estimates a deterioration degree indicating a degree of deterioration in an image capturing element converting an image of a subject into an electrical signal, and controls parameters related to an amount of exposure to the image capturing element such that the amount of exposure to the image capturing element becomes equal to or smaller than a predetermined amount of exposure when t...