US Patent Issued to CANON on Nov. 3 for "Image processing apparatus and image processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,233, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus and image processing method" was invented by Yuya Ebata (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes a first tracking unit configured to perform subject tracking using an image obtained by an image capturing unit, a second tracking unit configured to perform subject tracking using the image obtained by the image capturing unit, an operational load in the second tracking unit being smaller than an operational load in the first tracking unit, and a control unit configured to control switching between enabling ...