US Patent Issued to CANON on July 22 for "Image processing apparatus, control method thereof, and image capturing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,605, issued on July 22, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, control method thereof, and image capturing apparatus" was invented by Tomoyuki Tenkawa (Chiba, Japan), Kotaro Yano (Tokyo) and Kenshi Saito (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus comprises: an image input unit configured to input an image; a detection unit configured to detect an object from the image; an accepting unit configured to accept an input of a locus to the image, a selection unit configured to select, based on a locus region decided by the locus, at least two objects included in a plurality of ob...