US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 1 for "Image processing apparatus, image pickup apparatus, and image processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,237, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image pickup apparatus, and image processing method" was invented by Yohei Toyohara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to detect a shielding object that shields part of a main object in an evaluation image obtained by imaging the main object, and evaluate deterioration in a portion of the main object excluding the shielding object in the evaluation image."

The patent was filed on Jan. 25, 2024, under Applicati...