US Patent Issued to CANON on May 20 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, image capturing apparatus, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,795, issued on May 20, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, image capturing apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Rui Nabeshima (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus comprises a generation unit configured to generate an image file of captured image data, the generation unit generating the image file with estimation results related to the image data added thereto as metadata, wherein the generation unit generates the metadata so that a first estimation result and a second estimation result are distinguishable from each other, the firs...