US Patent Issued to CANON on May 19 for "Image processing apparatus for generating a background image, image processing method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,015, issued on May 19, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus for generating a background image, image processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Hidenori Ito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a case where a background image is generated from a plurality of captured images obtained during a predetermined time, on a condition that an object at rest exists, the object is taken in in the background image. A new background image is generated by performing updating processing based on the plurality of captured images, which takes an updating area identified by area information among generated bac...