ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,474, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information identification processing apparatus, information identification processing method, image identification system, and storage medium" was invented by Takahisa Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Hideo Noro (Tokyo), Koji Makita (Kanagawa, Japan) and Atsuo Nomoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided with an information processing apparatus. An extracting unit extracts a feature vector of a subject in an image. A generating unit configured to generate, based on the feature vector, a post-conversion vector including a converted vector resulting from convers...