US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 30 for "Image capturing apparatus and control method thereof and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,457, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image capturing apparatus and control method thereof and storage medium" was invented by Fumitaka Nakayama (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hiroshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing apparatus comprises a determination unit configured to determine an exposure in order to capture a visible light image and an invisible light image; an image capturing unit configured to capture a visible light image and a plurality of invisible light images with an exposure determined by the determination unit; a synthesis unit configured to synthesize the plurali...