US Patent Issued to CANON on June 9 for "Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and information processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,323, issued on June 9, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and information processing method" was invented by Junichi Kodama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an information processing apparatus capable of efficient caching even in the case of image data in which a lot of pieces of partial image data are provided with metadata. The information processing apparatus has a specifying unit which specifies, from metadata of image data, partial metadata corresponding to partial image data obtained by dividing the image data into regions, a display unit w...