ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,527, issued on July 15, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus, lens apparatus, and storage medium for performing signal processing for a signal using a correction value" was invented by Tatsuro Kato (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a processing unit configured to perform signal processing for a signal from a sensor using a correction value that is different for each pixel of the pair of signals, and a calculating unit configured to perform a correlation calculation for the signal output from the processing unit. The processing unit performs a weighted sum for adjacent pixels using the corr...