US Patent Issued to Canon on July 22 for "Imaging apparatus, illumination apparatus, imaging system, and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,969, issued on July 22, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Imaging apparatus, illumination apparatus, imaging system, and control method" was invented by Keiichiro Saito (Tokyo) and Yutaka Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus configured to capture an image using an illumination apparatus includes an image sensor, one or more processors, and a memory storing instructions which, when executed by the processors, cause the imaging apparatus to function as a selection unit configured to select a background color in response to a user's instruction, a processing unit configured to perform white ba...