US Patent Issued to Canon on March 24 for "Generation of plural images having m-bit depth per pixel by clipping M-bit segments from mutually different positions in image having N-bit depth per pixel" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,363, issued on March 24, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Generation of plural images having m-bit depth per pixel by clipping M-bit segments from mutually different positions in image having N-bit depth per pixel" was invented by Hiroyuki Hasegawa (Chiba, Japan), Koki Nakamura (Tokyo), Shunsuke Kawahara (Tokyo) and Kazuki Hosoi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus including a first generation unit configured to generate a plurality of images having an M-bit depth per pixel by inputting an input image having a bit depth of N bits, and clipping M-bit segments from mutually different positions within...