ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,524, issued on June 10, was assigned to MAXELL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Imaging device and image processing method" was invented by Masayuki Hirabayashi (Kyoto, Japan), Yasunobu Hashimoto (Kyoto, Japan) and Hiroshi Shimizu (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an imaging device including: an image processing unit; a face recognition processing unit; a storage unit; and a composition processing unit for generating composite data by a composition process so that persons photographed in each of a plurality of image data are included in one image data. The face recognition processing unit recognizes a first person b...