ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,436, issued on April 22, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Imaging apparatus and control device for notifying a change in a state of the imaging apparatus to the control device" was invented by Toru Takashima (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus configured to notify an external control device of information in the imaging apparatus, the imaging apparatus includes: a communication circuitry configured to perform data communication with the control device; and a control circuitry configured to generate notification data in response to an event and control th...