US Patent Issued to Canon on Jan. 27 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,315, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Masanori Fukada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus that processes an image file having a structure that includes a plurality of pieces of image data and metadata relating to the plurality of pieces of image data. The apparatus includes a determining unit configured to determine whether the structure is a file structure in which privacy information can be included in data, among the plurality of pieces of image data and th...