US Patent Issued to CANON on April 7 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,266, issued on April 7, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Masahiro Handa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to make it possible to provide an appropriate image. A background combined image that takes, as a foreground, an image corresponding to a virtual viewpoint that is set in an image capturing space and a background combined image that takes, as a foreground, part of a captured image captured from a specific viewpoint among a plurality of captured images are generated. Then, the configuration is designed so that it is possib...