US Patent Issued to CANON on Aug. 19 for "Image processing apparatus and method, and image capturing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,745, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus and method, and image capturing apparatus" was invented by Takuya Nabeshima (Kanagawa, Japan), Takenori Kobuse (Kanagawa, Japan), Takahiro Kamikura (Tokyo), Shigeharu Aoki (Kanagawa, Japan), Kento Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan) and Daisuke Higuchi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an image processing apparatus, an image signal of a plurality of polarized lights is input, for each set of image signals corresponding to the polarized lights, a maximum value of polarization intensities of polarization components of the image signals and a po...