ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,800, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing method, storage medium, image processing apparatus, manufacturing method of trained model, and image processing system" was invented by Masakazu Kobayashi (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method includes the steps of acquiring input data including a captured image and information about a state of an optical system that was used to capture the captured image, and estimating distance information about the captured image by inputting the input data into a machine learning model. The information about the state of the optical...