ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,543, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Kenta Hosaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to embodiments of the present disclosure, an image processing apparatus for processing image data captured by an image sensor configured to set exposure area by area includes a calculation unit configured to calculate an exposure value of each of the areas, and a correction unit configured to, in a case where the exposure value of each of the areas does not fall within a range based on a reference exposure value, correct the e...