US Patent Issued to Canon on Aug. 26 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image capture apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,910, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image capture apparatus" was invented by Hiroaki Kuchiki (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus acquires image data and first information relating to a maximum luminance value of an output dynamic range of the image data. The apparatus then applies, to the image data, processing in which a luminance value of the image data and a first value based on the first information are used. In a case in which the image data is encoded in a first numerical range and the first information is en...