US Patent Issued to CANON on Nov. 4 for "Inference apparatus, image capturing apparatus, training apparatus, inference method, training method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,237, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Inference apparatus, image capturing apparatus, training apparatus, inference method, training method, and storage medium" was invented by Hideyuki Hamano (Kanagawa, Japan), Akihiko Kanda (Kanagawa, Japan), Kuniaki Sugitani (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yohei Matsui (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an inference apparatus. An inference unit performs inference with use of a machine learning model based on a subject region including a subject within an image obtained through shooting, and on a plurality of distance information pieces detected from a plur...