ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,864, issued on July 1, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Light emitting apparatus, imaging system, control method of light emitting apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Takayuki Shu (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light emitting apparatus includes a processor having a first mode for causing a light emitting unit to emit light with a first light emission amount, and a second mode for causing the light emitting unit to emit the light with a second light emission amount acquired from an image pickup apparatus. In a case where the processor receives a light emitting instruction in the second mode while the l...