ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,747, issued on March 11, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging control device, imaging control method, program, and imaging system" was invented by Ryouhei Yasuda (Tokyo) and Takuro Noda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an imaging control device, an imaging control method, a program, and an imaging system that enable easy change of a direction in which an image of a subject is captured in a case where imaging is performed using an optical member whose observation optical axis is inclined with respect to a central axis. The imaging control device includes: a rotation axis setting unit that sets a r...