ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,944, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus, system and method of information processing, and storage medium" was invented by Masaru Kurota (Tokyo), Takuya Iwata (Tokyo), Tomoaki Komiyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Akira Kosuge (Tokyo) and Takashi Mori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect a plurality of subjects from an image, a selection unit configured to select a subject as a tracking target, a tracking unit configured to track the subject as the tracking target selected by the selection unit using information about the plurality...