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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,166, issued on March 24, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing method, image processing apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Takashi Oniki (Tochigi, Japan), Norihito Hiasa (Tochigi, Japan) and Masakazu Kobayashi (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes sharpening a first image to generate a second image, generating a first weight map based on the first image, generating a second weight map based on the second image, and generating a third image based on the first image, the second image, the first weight map, and the second weight map, wherein each of the first weight map and the sec...