US Patent Issued to CANON on Dec. 30 for "Image processing apparatus generating a combined image, image pickup apparatus, and image processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,423, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus generating a combined image, image pickup apparatus, and image processing method" was invented by Yoichi Takahashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus is configured to process a plurality of images acquired by sequentially capturing an object image. The image processing apparatus detects a positional shift amount between the plurality of images, generate a combined image by combining the plurality of images that have been aligned based on the positional shift amount, and acquire an optical center position of the com...