US Patent Issued to Canon on May 27 for "Electronic device and control method to acquire distance information for detected object" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,179, issued on May 27, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Electronic device and control method to acquire distance information for detected object" was invented by Kazuya Nobayashi (Tokyo), Shin Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan), Makoto Oigawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Shigeo Kodama (Tokyo) and Tomoyuki Kawamoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes one or more memories storing instructions, and one or more processors executing the instructions to acquire a captured image and a distance image, detect an object from the captured image, acquire first distance information indicating a distance to...