US Patent Issued to Canon on Dec. 9 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,938, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Hiroki Yoshida (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires a first image obtained by capturing an optical image by an optical system including a high distortion region in which distortion is large and a low distortion region in which distortion is small, a cutout unit that cuts out a partial image region from the first image to acquire a second image, and an expansion processing unit that expands the second image ...