ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,603, issued on July 14, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus and method, and storage medium for generating high-definition images" was invented by Yota Uehara (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shuichi Hosokawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an image processing apparatus that renders images of a second image group high-definition using a first image group, the second image group including less high frequency components than the first image group does. The image processing apparatus selects, from among supervisory data pieces that each include an image included in the first image group ...