US Patent Issued to NEC on April 15 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer recording medium for synthesizing a corrected image with a target image to be processed to generate a new image" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,685, issued on April 15, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer recording medium for synthesizing a corrected image with a target image to be processed to generate a new image" was invented by Ryosaku Shino (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes; a mask image generation unit that specifies a region having a luminance value higher than a specific value as a mask region from a target image, generates a mask image by setting the luminance value of a region other than the mask region to zero, a mask expansion processing unit that specifies...