ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,716, issued on June 30, was assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan) and FAIRY DEVICES INC. (Tokyo).

"Image processing method, computer program, and image processing apparatus" was invented by Viraf Patrawala (Osaka, Japan), Anishram Senathi (Osaka, Japan) and Vansh Bhatia (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method, by an image processing apparatus, detects candidates of a scene change point in a moving image, detects candidate frames of a main frame of a scene from frames forming the moving image, and determines the main frame from the candidate frames. Based on a time-series order of the candid...