US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 1 for "Apparatus, method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,687, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus, method, and storage medium" was invented by Hiroshi Nakaoka (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus records, as a single file, visible light images of a plurality of points of view, invisible light images of a plurality of points of view, meta information about visible light images corresponding to the visible light images of the plurality of points of view, and meta information about invisible light images corresponding to the invisible light images of the plurality of points of view."

The patent was filed on March 3, 2023, under Application...