US Patent Issued to Canon on March 31 for "Information generation apparatus, information generation method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,993, issued on March 31, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information generation apparatus, information generation method, and storage medium" was invented by Tomohiro Sakai (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information generation apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine, based on a predetermined condition, whether to enable a grouping process for grouping objects detected from an image, and a generation unit configured to generate metadata regarding the objects detected from the image, wherein, in a case where the determination unit determines that the grouping process is to be enabled, t...