US Patent Issued to CANON on Oct. 21 for "Control apparatus, image capturing apparatus, control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,509, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus, image capturing apparatus, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Yasusaburo Degura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus comprises: a detecting unit configured to detect connection of a cooling apparatus; an authenticating unit configured to authenticate the cooling apparatus whose connection has been detected by the detecting unit; and a controlling unit configured to control operation of the cooling apparatus. In a case where the cooling apparatus is not authenticated by the authenticating unit, the controlling unit acc...