US Patent Issued to Canon on Jan. 27 for "Control system, image capturing apparatus and control method thereof, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,017, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Control system, image capturing apparatus and control method thereof, and storage medium" was invented by Nao Asano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system in which an image capturing apparatus is controlled by a plurality of control apparatuses, wherein each control apparatus includes a first communication unit that communicates with the image capturing apparatus, a first instruction unit that outputs an instruction to start or stop an autofocus operation, and a second instruction unit that outputs an instruction to start or stop a shooting operation. The im...