ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,656, issued on June 17, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image reproduction apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium" was invented by Koji Yoshida (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuki Kurosawa (Tokyo) and Tomoaki Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image reproduction apparatus includes a setting unit configured to set, when reproduction of an image stored in a storage unit is performed, whether to perform filtering reproduction that reproduces the image by performing filtering in which only images that match specific attribute information are selected, or to perform reproduction without performing filteri...