US Patent Issued to Canon on April 29 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, imaging apparatus, and storage medium for capturing images having different focus positions" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,312, issued on April 29, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, imaging apparatus, and storage medium for capturing images having different focus positions" was invented by Hiroki Usami (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an imaging apparatus including a determination unit configured to perform scene determination and a combination unit configured to combine a plurality of images different in focus position in an optical axis direction. The combination unit automatically performs the combination based on a result of the scene determination. A composite image to be genera...