US Patent Issued to CANON on July 14 for "Object determining apparatus, image pickup apparatus, and object determining method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,489, issued on July 14, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Object determining apparatus, image pickup apparatus, and object determining method" was invented by Akihiko Kanda (Kanagawa, Japan), Hideki Ogura (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroshi Yashima (Kanagawa, Japan), Yohei Matsui (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kuniaki Sugitani (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object determining apparatus includes a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to detect an object from image data obtained by imaging, acquire information about orientation of the object from the image data, determine a main objec...