ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,517, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing method, image processing apparatus, image processing system, and manufacturing method of learnt weight" was invented by Norihito Hiasa (Utsunomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method includes a first step of acquiring input data including a captured image and optical system information relating to a state of an optical system used for capturing the captured image and a second step of inputting the input data to a machine learning model and of generating an estimated image acquired by sharpening the captured image or by reshaping...