ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,780, issued on April 21, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus and method, image capturing apparatus and storage medium" was invented by Naoto Kimura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an image processing apparatus, an extraction unit extracts a plurality of AC signals of a plurality of different frequency bands from image data input by an input unit; a generation unit generates first and second adjustment values for adjusting positive and negative components of an amplitude of each AC signal; an adjustment unit adjusts the amplitude of each AC signal using the first and second adjustment va...