US Patent Issued to Canon on May 13 for "Image processing device, image processing method, imaging device, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,980, issued on May 13, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing device, image processing method, imaging device, and storage medium" was invented by Takashi Sasaki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Asahi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device acquires an image and relevant information of a subject related to the image in a depth direction and performs image processing. A distance information generation unit generates a distribution of additional information (a defocus map, a distance map, etc.) related to the image. A distortion/blur correction unit performs deformation processing on the acquired im...