ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,915, issued on April 21, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image processing apparatus and image processing method" was invented by Atsushi Nagao (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus that estimates a vector representing a relative positional relationship between parts of a subject using machine learning is disclosed. The image processing apparatus, using a convolutional neural network (CNN), detects, from an image, a first part and a second part of a specific subject, and a relative position vector from the first part to the second part. The CNN is configured to generate a feature map indic...