US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Dec. 16 for "Image processing apparatus and image processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,553, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus and image processing method" was invented by Ryuichi Tadano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a program capable of realizing highly accurate image recognition processing while taking privacy into consideration with a simple configuration. A mask of a lensless camera is convoluted with a weight of a DNN first layer used in image recognition processing using a DNN, and a reconstructed image becomes a processing result of the DNN first layer on ...