ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,484, issued on May 20, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Kenshiro Mizuma (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus comprises a determination unit configured to, in a case where a user operation for removing an image capturing apparatus being a control target from the control target is performed, determine whether or not the image capturing apparatus is executing a specific function, and a control unit configured to, in a case where the determination unit determines that the image capturing apparatus is ...