US Patent Issued to CANON on July 21 for "Image processing apparatus, image pickup apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,837, issued on July 21, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image pickup apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Hinako Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Nobukazu Yoshida (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus acquires lens information, combines a plurality of images with different focus positions based on information about an imaging magnification acquired from the lens information to generate a combined image with a depth of field deeper than that of each of the plurality of images, and detects a main object. In a case where the process...