ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,135, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Light control device that performs light control of lighting device, light control system, and control method" was invented by Toru Kohno (Kanagawa, Japan), Takayuki Shu (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuhei Hattori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light control system including an image capturing apparatus having an image capturing section for acquiring an image of an object, a lighting device having a light emitting section, and a light control device. The image capturing apparatus includes a communication section that communicates with the lighting device and the light cont...