ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,040, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus, image pickup system, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Takashi Tada (Tochigi, Japan) and Yumiko Shinozuka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus is configured to communicate with an imaging unit including a display unit. The control apparatus includes a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to communicate with the imaging unit, generate display data for the display unit based on information about display ability of the display unit acquired through communication...