US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 2 for "Control apparatus, control method, radiation imaging system, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,373, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus, control method, radiation imaging system, and storage medium" was invented by Tomohiro Kawanishi (Tokyo), Hironori Yamashita (Kanagawa, Japan), Masaya Kawai (Kanagawa, Japan) and Keiko Uehara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes an acquisition unit and a display control unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire information about an orientation of a detector. The detector is configured to capture a radiation image by detecting radiation, and includes a plurality of receptor fields for performing automatic exposure...