ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,820, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image capturing system, control method, and storage medium storing control program therefor" was invented by Nobuyuki Horie (Tokyo) and Katsuya Nakano (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing system capable of reducing processing load in an image process. The image capturing system includes image capturing apparatuses capable of image capturing and communicable mutually. A time synchronous unit synchronizes times of the image capturing apparatuses. A controller controls image capturing timings of the image capturing apparatuses based on the times s...