ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,240, issued on March 24, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image processing apparatus and control method for same" was invented by Kenshi Saito (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus comprises: an obtaining unit configured to obtain a captured image; a likelihood obtaining unit configured to obtain a likelihood map indicating a likelihood of existence of an object at each position of the captured image; a region obtaining unit configured to obtain, at each position of the captured image, a region tensor indicating a position and a size of an object with respect to each position; an accepting...