ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,911, issued on June 30, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing device, image processing method, imaging device, and recording medium" was invented by Toru Matsumoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Masafumi Kimura (Kanagawa, Japan), Kyosuke Sato (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ryuichiro Yasuda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device comprising: a memory storing instructions; and a processor executing the instructions causing the image processing device to: acquire outside information; acquire luminance information of an image; combine a plurality of images and to generate a combined image; perform a process of outputt...