ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,515, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image processing apparatus and control method therefor" was invented by Tomohiro Hirama (Saitama, Japan) and Takumi Tosaki (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit for acquiring an image obtained by an image capturing apparatus including an image sensor for capturing a light beam from a subject through an optical lens, and a generation unit for generating first subject distance information indicating a distance from the image capturing apparatus to the subject based on information corresponding to an entran...