ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,031, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Control device, control method, and control program" was invented by Tetsuya Fujikawa (Saitama, Japan) and Tomoharu Shimada (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device controls a revolution mechanism causing an imaging apparatus to revolve. The control device includes a processor. The processor is configured to switch between first control and second control that are related to an operation of the revolution mechanism based on at least any one of an imaging condition of the imaging apparatus or operating information of the revolution mechanism, the f...