US Patent Issued to Canon on July 7 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, image processing system, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,967, issued on July 7, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, image processing system, and storage medium" was invented by Yasuyuki Yamazaki (Tokyo) and Kenshi Saito (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A captured image is acquired, an instruction with respect to the captured image acquired is received, a likelihood map indicating likelihood of presence of an object in a predetermined region of regions into which the captured image is divided is acquired, a region indicating a position and size of the object in the captured image is estimated, and an object region correspon...