ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,819, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Control device and method" was invented by Keisuke Chida (Tokyo) and Takuro Kawai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a control device and method for enabling image capturing under optimum image-capturing conditions. A control section corrects preset image-capturing conditions on the basis of an analysis result of an image captured by an image capturing device included in a mobile body. A driving control section controls driving of the mobile body on the basis of the corrected image-capturing conditions. The present technique is applicable to a mobile-bo...