US Patent Issued to CANON on Dec. 16 for "Image processing apparatus for generating color-reduced image, control method thereof, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,592, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus for generating color-reduced image, control method thereof, and storage medium" was invented by Hiroyuki Sakai (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus capable of generating a color-reduced image having high object reproducibility. The image processing apparatus: determines a first representative color(s)/a second representative color/a third representative color, based on an RGB value of a pixel determined to have a high chroma attribute/a low chroma attribute/a low brightness attribute based on a chroma binary i...