US Patent Issued to Canon on Feb. 3 for "Image processing apparatus to generate composite image, control method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,975, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus to generate composite image, control method, and recording medium" was invented by Yohei Yamanaka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus acquires a first image and a second image having a dynamic range wider than a dynamic range of the first image, generates a converted image by converting the dynamic range of the first image, and generates a composite image by compositing the second image and the converted image. The apparatus decides a composition range based on the second image, and converts the dynamic rang...