ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,509, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Yosuke Takada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes an identification unit configured to identify a partial region of an input image, and a processing unit configured to perform image processing for reducing degradation of the input image on the input image by inference using a neural network. The processing unit is configured to change the image processing between the partial region and another region."

The patent was ...