ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,657, issued on March 18, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Yangtai Shen (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technique detects a foreground region accurately even with a neural network. A first region detection unit detects, by a DNN, a predetermined foreground region in an inputted image. A weak region identification unit detects, by a DNN, a weak region having a possibility that misdetection or non-detection occurs during the region detection on the inputted image using a DNN that has the same detection target as that of the ...