ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,039, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Masami Kato (Kanagawa, Japan), Tsewei Chen (Tokyo), Shiori Wakino (Osaka, Japan) and Motoki Yoshinaga (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus sets coefficients in a first array based on first information indicating an image capturing orientation of a first image, generates a first map by applying the coefficients to the first image, acquires a template feature corresponding to an object based on the first map, registers the template fe...