US Patent Issued to CANON on July 7 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,885, issued on July 7, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Tomoki Taminato (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus comprises a detection unit configured to detect a specific portion of a subject before detecting the subject in a search region of a first frame image, and a processing unit configured to perform tracking processing to track the subject in the first frame image after the detection unit has detected the specific portion."

The patent was filed on March 8, 2023, und...