US Patent Issued to CANON on Dec. 9 for "Image processing apparatus and image processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,967, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus and image processing method" was invented by Hiroyasu Katagawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Yasushi Ohwa (Tokyo), Takahiro Usami (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Yaguchi (Chiba, Japan), Toru Aida (Tokyo), Tomotaka Uekusa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yukihiro Kogai (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus comprises a first tracking circuit configured to apply machine learning (ML)-based first tracking processing to images and a second tracking circuit configured to apply non-ML-based second tracking processing to the images. The apparatus contro...