ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,264, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, image capturing apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium" was invented by Kosuke Saito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shifting unit shifts an output of an activation function corresponding to an input, based on an output range of the activation function. A scaling unit scales the output of the activation function, the output of the activation function having been shifted by the shifting unit. An output unit outputs an output value corresponding to the output of the activation function, the output of th...