US Patent Issued to CANON on June 24 for "Image capturing apparatus that determines image capturing mode according to installation place, method of controlling same, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,071, issued on June 24, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image capturing apparatus that determines image capturing mode according to installation place, method of controlling same, and storage medium" was invented by Tomokazu Mori (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kiyoshi Sekiguchi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing section for performing image capturing, an image capturing mode-determining section, and an installation place-identifying section. If an identified installation place of the apparatus and an installation place registered in advance match, the image capturing m...