US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 30 for "Storage medium, image processing apparatus, and image processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,004, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Storage medium, image processing apparatus, and image processing method" was invented by Jumpei Takeichi (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroyasu Kunieda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takayuki Yamada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present disclosure is to maintain unity of a plurality of albums in a case where editing of a common double-page spread is performed in one person's album. A program is provided which causes a computer to function as an editing unit configured to edit a plurality of albums. Attributes of double-page spreads in the plurality of album...