US Patent Issued to CANON on Nov. 4 for "Object tracing apparatus, method for same, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,400, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Object tracing apparatus, method for same, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Yumiko Uchida (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yusuke Mitarai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention provides an object tracing apparatus that traces an object in a video obtained by an image capturing apparatus, comprising a tracking unit that tracks the object in a frame in the video and obtains track data indicating consecutive appearances of the object, and a tracing unit that generates trace information indicating which object ID each track ID belongs to, by...