US Patent Issued to Canon on Feb. 4 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,401, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Atsushi Iwashita (Tokyo), Kosuke Terui (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryuichi Fujimoto (Tokyo) and Sota Torii (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus performs first noise reduction processing on a plurality of radiation images corresponding to mutually-different radiation energies, generates a decomposition image by energy subtraction processing using the plurality of radiation images obtained by performing the first noise reduction processing, and performs second noise re...