ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,825, issued on July 22, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus, control method, and program" was invented by Tomoharu Shimada (Saitama, Japan), Masahiko Sugimoto (Saitama, Japan) and Tetsuya Fujikawa (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus includes a processor that controls a surveillance camera. The processor enables switching between a first surveillance mode in which the surveillance camera is caused to perform imaging to acquire a first captured image and an imaging range is changed according to a given instruction, and a second surveillance mode in which the surveillance camera is c...