US Patent Issued to Canon on July 1 for "Image processing apparatus capable of efficiently converting image file, control method therefor, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,293, issued on July 1, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus capable of efficiently converting image file, control method therefor, and storage medium" was invented by Yuta Usui (Tokyo), Noboru Omori (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuma Naito (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus which efficiently converts an image file. The image processing apparatus, based on an instruction, converts a first-format image file including image data and annotation information into a second-format image file having memory capacity of a predetermined area smaller than that of the first-format image ...