ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,304, issued on March 3, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, image processing method, and program" was invented by Yuma Komiya (Saitama, Japan) and Akihiro Uchida (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an image processing apparatus including a processor and a memory connected to or built into the processor. The processor is configured to: detect a plurality of subjects based on a captured image obtained by being captured by an imaging apparatus; select, from among the plurality of subjects, a first subject and a second subject that is present within a range ...