US Patent Issued to Canon on Feb. 4 for "Image processing apparatus for determining an object area where part of the object is occluded" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,528, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus for determining an object area where part of the object is occluded" was invented by Hiroyuki Uchiyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroshi Tojo (Tokyo) and Shinji Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes a first detection unit configured to detect, from an image in which an object including a plurality of parts is captured, first feature points corresponding to the parts of the object, an acquisition unit configured to acquire a reliability indicating a likelihood that a position indicated by a feature p...