ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,898, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image processing apparatus and method, and image capturing apparatus" was invented by Junichi Saito (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus comprises: a first detector that detects a subject area of a predetermined subject from each of a plurality of images; a second detector that detects a partial area of a predetermined size that includes the subject area from each of the plurality of images; a feature point detector that detects a feature point of an image; and a synthesizer that synthesizes the partial areas of the plurality of imag...