US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 15 for "Image processing apparatus, control method therefor, image capturing apparatus, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,006, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, control method therefor, image capturing apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Keisuke Midorikawa (Tokyo) and Yasuhiko Iwamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing apparatus acquires successive images in a time-series manner and performs image processing thereon. The image capturing apparatus detects a first region (for example, a face) of a subject from an image, and detects a second region (for example, a torso) of a subject from an image. The image capturing apparatus performs processing for searching for a detec...