ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,013, issued on March 25, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Electronic device and method for controlling electronic device" was invented by Seiji Ogawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a processor; and a memory storing a program which, when executed by the processor, causes the electronic device to: obtain a plurality of VR images that are sequentially captured; and generate, from each of the plurality of VR images, a VR image in which a reference direction of the VR image is corrected to a direction in which a specific subject is present in the VR image."

The patent was filed on Oct. 23, 2023, ...