US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 16 for "System to integrate high distortion wide-angle camera recognition with low distortion normal-angle camera recognition" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,642, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"System to integrate high distortion wide-angle camera recognition with low distortion normal-angle camera recognition" was invented by Makiko Mori (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing system includes: an image acquisition unit configured to acquire image data generated by an imaging device that captures an optical image having a low-distortion region and a high-distortion region; a first image recognition unit configured to perform image recognition on image data of at least a partial region in the image data acquired by the image acquisitio...