ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,552, issued on July 28, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image pickup apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Nobuto Matsuda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus acquires a size of an object area in first image data, acquires characteristic data on a characteristic of an optical system according to the size of the object area, and generates second image data by applying the characteristic data to the first image data."

The patent was filed on Jan. 11, 2024, under Application No. 18/409,988.

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