US Patent Issued to CANON on June 30 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,564, issued on June 30, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Hisato Sekine (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes a calculation unit calculating ambient light based on an input image, a first generation unit generating a dark channel image having a minimum value of a color channel of a partial region in the input image as a pixel value based on the input image and the ambient light, and generating a transmittance distribution of atmosphere based on the dark channel i...