US Patent Issued to CANON on March 24 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,352, issued on March 24, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method and storage medium" was invented by Ryuichi Ishikuri (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus calculates a degree of similarity with a partial region corresponding to a previous image which is a high definition target previous to a current image selected as a high definition target for each one of a plurality of partial regions obtained by dividing the current image, determines a plurality of local regions form the current image by combining a collection of one or more partial regions...