ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,130, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Camera control device, camera control method, and image capture device" was invented by Kazuhiro Ishida (Tokyo) and Kazuki Kunihiro (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a camera control device configured in such a way as to include: a temperature detection signal acquisition unit to acquire a temperature detection signal indicating the temperature of an imaging element to output an image signal indicating an object from a temperature sensor to detect the temperature of the imaging element; and a control unit to control the amplification factor f...