US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on June 2 for "Imaging apparatus and control method for improving usability in image capture" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,680, issued on June 2, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging apparatus and control method for improving usability in image capture" was invented by Asuka Ikeno (Tokyo), Mayuko Sato (Tokyo), Sumino Sato (Tokyo) and Yuki Murata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an imaging apparatus that includes a control unit that causes recording of moving image capture mode information that indicates a moving image capture mode last used before power-off of the imaging apparatus, and causes power-on of the imaging apparatus when a predetermined operation is performed while the imaging apparatus is in a power-off state, an...