US Patent Issued to CANON on Aug. 12 for "Image processing apparatus, method, and storage medium for detecting action of a person in video images based on an optimal direction for detecting a motion in predicted actions of a person" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,529, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, method, and storage medium for detecting action of a person in video images based on an optimal direction for detecting a motion in predicted actions of a person" was invented by Sho Saito (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus according to one aspect of the present invention predicts the next action of a person who has been detected from an image captured by an image capturing apparatus, and selects an optimal image capturing apparatus for detecting the action of the person from among the plurality of image ...