US Patent Issued to Sony Group on Dec. 9 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,929, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program" was invented by Keisuke Yoshida (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuko Shibaike (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To make it possible to synthesize multiple pieces of image data at a step when the multiple pieces of image data are RAW images on which a development process has not been implemented. An image processing apparatus includes a synthesis processing section that synthesizes multiple pieces of RAW image data, each of which constitutes an image of one frame, to generate synthesized RAW image data....