US Patent Issued to Canon on July 7 for "Image processing device, image processing method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,972, issued on July 7, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing device, image processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Kazuya Kitamura (Kanagawa, Japan), Tokuro Nishida (Kanagawa, Japan), Koki Nakamura (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Hasegawa (Chiba, Japan) and Kengo Takeuchi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device including an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image containing a subject via a lens unit; a distance information acquisition unit configured to acquire distance information indicating a distance to the subject; an auxiliary data generation unit configured to gen...