ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,237, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method and storage medium" was invented by Takaaki Fukui (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises a detection unit configured to detect an object region from an image, a first processing unit configured to perform first image processing on the object region, a second processing unit configured to perform second image processing on a region other than the object region, a first determination unit configured to determine, in the object region, a first referential region to undergo the first image processi...