US Patent Issued to CANON on Nov. 4 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that generate a blended conversion characteristic" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,357, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that generate a blended conversion characteristic" was invented by Tetsuya Suwa (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus including a determining unit configured to determine, based on at least one of a first conversion characteristic or a second conversion characteristic, a conversion characteristic of each of a plurality of regions in a first image having a first dynamic range, and a conversion unit configured to convert an image of ea...