US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 1 for "Image processing apparatus, image capture apparatus, and image processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,701, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image capture apparatus, and image processing method" was invented by Naoki Nomura (Kanagawa, Japan), Shimpei Itagaki (Tokyo), Toru Matsumoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Tamaki Negishi (Tokyo) and Mai Nakabayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an image processing apparatus that detects one or more subject regions from an image. The image processing apparatus obtains a motion vector for each of the one or more subject regions and determines, as a main subject region, a subject region, among the one or more subject regions, for which a d...