US Patent Issued to CANON on April 8 for "Information processing apparatus, information processing method, image sensor, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,637, issued on April 8, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, image sensor, and storage medium" was invented by Yasuo Fukuda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pixel values are read out of an OB pixel region under a predetermined exposure condition, and predetermined processing is performed on the pixel values to derive a dark current component value. The dark current component value of a segmented pixel region is estimated from the OB dark current component value by taking into account the difference between the exposure conditions of the OB pixel region and the segm...