US Patent Issued to Canon on June 17 for "Image processing apparatus and method, and image capturing apparatus and control method thereof, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,752, issued on June 17, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus and method, and image capturing apparatus and control method thereof, and storage medium" was invented by Hidetoshi Tsubaki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Taisei Mori (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus comprises: an acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of different viewpoint images obtained by shooting a same scene from different viewpoints, and acquires at least one parallax image pair having parallax by pupil division; a first generator that generates a first distance image from the parallax image pair; a ...