ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,149, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image processing apparatus and method of processing image" was invented by Yu Inagaki (Tokyo) and Keisuke Midorikawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes one or more processors that execute a program and thereby function as a setting unit that sets a tracking target region, a generating unit that generates a template to be used in template matching based on a set tracking target region, and a detecting unit that detects, in a current image, a first region that is similar to a template generated by the generating unit, by applying temp...