ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,165, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image capturing apparatus, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Yudai Itoi (Tokyo), Yuki Tsujimoto (Tokyo) and Takuma Iwagami (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor, a power supply circuit, and a power storage device. A charging unit charges the power storage device using power from the power supply circuit. A control unit performs control such that in a first operation state of the image capturing apparatus, power is supplied from the power supply circuit to the image sensor without power being sup...