US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 9 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image capture apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,249, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image capture apparatus" was invented by Satoru Kobayashi (Tokyo) and Akane Kanzaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus determines an area in a visible light image where an invisible light image is to be combined and combines the invisible light image with the visible light image based on a determination to generate a combined image. Before combining, the apparatus adjusts the invisible light image so that, in the combined image, a difference between tone information in an ar...