ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,146, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image capturing apparatus, control method of image processing apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Ryo Shiota (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes a control unit setting an exposure of an image to be captured, setting a quantity of images to be captured, and acquiring a plurality of image signals corresponding to the set quantity by controlling image capturing at the set exposure; a composing unit generating an additive composite image by additively composing the plurality of image signa...