ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,850, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Generating and using a model for settings in an imaging apparatus" was invented by Shogo Matsumoto (Kanagawa, Japan) and Pucheng Liu (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A learning apparatus includes a model generating unit configured to generate, by using teacher data including a subject and a composite image generated from a plurality of images captured based on settings predetermined for the subject, a model for generating imaging settings suitable for generating a composite image of the subject through machine learning. The plurality of images are images cap...