ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,253, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, control method thereof, recording medium" was invented by Tomoya Asanuma (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus acquires a captured image, sets a plurality of parameters for generating a matching model, generates a matching model for detecting a target object based on the acquired captured image and the set plurality of parameters, and identifies an item of a common parameter for common use by a plurality of target objects and an item of an individual parameter to be determined for each of the plurality of t...