ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,668, issued on June 2, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image pickup apparatus, and control methods for those apparatuses" was invented by Ayana Kinoshita (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an image processing apparatus, first acquisition means for acquiring first teacher data including image data of a positive instance for a first target, second acquisition means for acquiring second teacher data including image data of a negative instance for the first target, and generation means for generating first dictionary data for detecting the first target based on the teacher data acquired by ...