ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,428, issued on July 14, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, image processing method, and program for obtaining a composite image utilizing characteristics of a plurality of images" was invented by Tomoharu Shimada (Saitama, Japan), Taro Saito (Saitama, Japan) and Koichi Tanaka (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The image processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to: acquire a second image, which is obtained by performing first AI processing on a first image, and a fourth image, which is obtained without performing the first AI processing on t...