US Patent Issued to Canon on Dec. 23 for "Image processing apparatus, method for controlling the same, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,640, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, method for controlling the same, and storage medium" was invented by Yasuo Bamba (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit, a division unit, a conversion unit, an addition unit, an encoding unit, an extraction unit, and a determination unit. The obtaining unit obtains an image including an object. The division unit divides the obtained image into a plurality of partial images. The conversion unit converts the plurality of partial images into tokens being vectors having a fixed dimension. The ad...