US Patent Issued to Canon on Feb. 18 for "Image processing method, image processing device, and image pickup apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,790, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing method, image processing device, and image pickup apparatus" was invented by Koichi Fukuda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment of the present invention provides an image processing method, the method comprising: acquiring a plurality of viewpoint images; generating a contrast distribution from the plurality of viewpoint images; and generating an output image by performing image processing in accordance with the contrast distribution with respect to an image based on the plurality of viewpoint images."

The patent was filed on Jan. 7, 2022, ...