ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,961, issued on May 20, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image processing apparatus and control method" was invented by Shuichi Ohkawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus comprises an image processing unit configured to generate an image to be saved, and a control unit configured to control the image processing unit in response to an instruction for generating a second image from a first image and saving the second image. When the second image is saved in response to the instruction, the image processing unit adds protection information to the second image and save the second image, the protection i...