ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,408, issued on May 12, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Image processing apparatus, imaging system, and method for estimating error in reconstructed images" was invented by Motoki Yako (Osaka, Japan) and Takayuki Kiyohara (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes a storage device storing coding information indicating light transmission characteristics of an encoding mask including optical filters that are arranged in two dimensions and whose light transmission characteristics are different from one another and a signal processing circuit that...