US Patent Issued to Sony Group on July 22 for "Image processing device, method of processing image, image processing program, and imaging device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,953, issued on July 22, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing device, method of processing image, image processing program, and imaging device" was invented by Toshiki Ono (Tokyo) and Ryuji Shibata (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing system configured to perform predetermined processing based on out-of-focus information corresponding to a first area of an image, the out-of-focus information corresponding to a difference in focus between the first area of the image and a second area of the image that is different from the first area of the image."

The patent was filed on Jun...