ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,260, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, method, and storage medium to generate a likelihood map" was invented by Fukashi Yamazaki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuta Narukiyo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire first information including information indicating a position and a size of a target in training image data and second information including information indicating a constraint regarding a region of the target, and a generation unit configured to generate a likelihood map indicating likeliness ...