ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,021, issued on May 13, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Video processing apparatus, control method therefor, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Kimimaru Kato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides a video processing apparatus that detects biometric information of an object from a video of the object composed of a plurality of time-series images, wherein the apparatus comprises an acquiring unit which receives the video input thereto, and acquires a skin area of an object; a determining unit which determines correction coefficients based on a color of the skin area and a co...