ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,146, issued on April 7, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and control method thereof" was invented by Akane Iseki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus sets a first area and a second area corresponding to image areas of a tracking target, which are different from each other, for a template image included in a video sequence and including an image of the tracking target. The apparatus extracts a first area feature and a second area feature from the first area and the second area using a feature extraction NN, extracts a search area feature from a search ...