ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,718, issued on March 25, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Sho Saito (Saitama, Japan), Atsushi Kawano (Tokyo), Shinji Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Akifumi Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ichiko Mayuzumi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus that outputs information about a specified product includes a detection unit configured to detect person information including a behavior history of a person detected from a video, and an output unit configured to output information about a product that meets a predeterm...