ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,844, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image pickup apparatus, and image processing method" was invented by Akihito Shin (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to acquire information about an object size in first image data, acquire a parameter about an optical characteristic of an optical system, acquire, based on the parameter, a characteristic that changes according to the information about the object size, and generate second image data by applying ...