US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 1 for "Control device and control method for controlling an electronic apparatus in a plurality of control modes" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,483, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Control device and control method for controlling an electronic apparatus in a plurality of control modes" was invented by Yosuke Mine (Tokyo), Atsushi Sugawara (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shuichi Ohkawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device controls an electronic apparatus. The control device selects either one of a first control mode and a second control mode as a control mode to control the electronic apparatus. The control device 1) controls the electronic apparatus in accordance with a state of a specific portion of the user determined based on imaging by an...