ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,983, issued on March 31, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Yutaka Takagi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shunta Tate (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus comprises a first computation unit configured to obtain first features of an image of a tracking target, a second computation unit configured to obtain second features of an image of a search region, a third computation unit configured to obtain an inference tensor representing likelihoods that the tracking target is pre...