US Patent Issued to Canon on Oct. 21 for "Control apparatus that controls display of menus in accordance with input or a password, controlling method for control apparatus, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,955, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus that controls display of menus in accordance with input or a password, controlling method for control apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Hayato Shirai (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus includes a first display controller that displays selection areas on a display unit, a locking unit that controls the control apparatus in a locked state, a changing unit that changes the state of the control apparatus from the locked state to a released state based on input of a password in the state of the control apparatus con...