ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,611, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Action determination apparatus, image capturing apparatus, action determination method, and storage medium that detect N types of body parts (Nless than3)" was invented by Reiji Hasegawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A determination control apparatus that functions as an action determination apparatus including a detection unit performing detection processing for detecting N types of body parts (Nless than=3), the body parts including a first type, of a subject in an image, and a selection unit configured to select one of a plurality of machine learning mode...