ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,694, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image capturing control apparatus, control method, and recording medium" was invented by Shimpei Kitai (Chiba, Japan) and Koichi Okada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing control apparatus includes a touch detection unit configured to detect a touch operation on a display unit, and a control unit configured to control recording of an image captured by an imaging unit, and a stop of the recording in accordance with a touch operation detected by the touch detection unit. In a case where recording of an image captured by the imaging unit is not being perfo...