US Patent Issued to Canon on Jan. 28 for "Image processing apparatus, measurement method, and storage medium for measuring distance from image" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,846, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, measurement method, and storage medium for measuring distance from image" was invented by Takuya Ishibashi (Tokyo), Yosuke Eguchi (Tokyo) and Satoru Komatsu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes one or more processors, and a memory storing instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to function as an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image, a parameter acquisition unit configured to acquire a parameter recorded when the image is captured, a determination unit con...