ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,611, issued on June 17, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Electronic device and method for controlling the same" was invented by Yoshihiro Funatsu (Kanagawa, Japan), Koki Kitaya (Kanagawa, Japan) and Junko Morikawa (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first image capturing unit (203 to 205) configured to capture an image using a lens placed on a first surface, a second image capturing unit (201 and 202) configured to capture an image using a lens placed on a second surface, the second image capturing unit being configured to switch to first image capturing using a first lens and second image capturing using a second lens...