US Patent Issued to Canon on March 18 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,157, issued on March 18, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Masashi Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan) and Taisuke Nishio (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a first control value related to white balance based on an input image, a determination unit configured to determine whether a first area including the acquired first control value is changeable, a control unit configured to change the first area to a second area based on a result of determination by the determination uni...