US Patent Issued to Canon on June 16 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,904, issued on June 16, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Tsewei Chen (Tokyo) and Masami Kato (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus comprises a first obtaining unit configured to obtain a pixel from a feature image, and a calculating unit configured to perform a convolution operation based on a pixel obtained by the first obtaining unit. The first obtaining unit is capable of obtaining non-adjacent pixels from the feature image."

The patent was filed on March 18, 2022, u...