ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,373, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium that detect a position of an object in an area in which the object performs an activity, based on an obtained image" was invented by Tetsuhiko Yao (Tokyo) and Atsushi Tamura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing obtains a captured image of an area where an object performs an activity, detects a position of the object in the area based on the obtained image, specifies an action of the object based on the obtained image, the action performed by the object at...