ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,348, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Video processing apparatus, method for controlling the same, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Kimimaru Kato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a technique for determining whether an object is a living body with a high degree of accuracy even for a relatively short video of about one second. To achieve this, a video processing apparatus configured to determine whether an object is a living body from video data of the object constituted by a plurality of frames, comprises a correction unit configured to cor...