US Patent Issued to SOCIONEXT on May 12 for "Image processing apparatus and image processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,781, issued on May 12, was assigned to SOCIONEXT INC. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Image processing apparatus and image processing method" was invented by Soichi Hagiwara (Yokohama, Japan), Yuji Umezu (Yokohama, Japan) and Junzo Sakurai (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus performs a process including acquiring first image data, calculating a white balance value used for an automatic white balance adjustment according to the first image data, performing an automatic white balance adjustment on the first image data according to the white balance value to generate image data after a first correction, calc...