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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2022
Filed:
May. 21, 2021
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/353 (2011.01); H04N 9/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/353 (2013.01); H04N 9/0451 (2018.08);
Abstract
An apparatus comprises a generating unit configured to generate a plurality of pieces of RAW data for respective exposure times from RAW data obtained from a sensor that can perform shooting at an exposure time that is different for each pixel, and an encoding unit configured to encode the generated plurality of pieces of RAW data.