ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,165, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Takeru Ohya (Tokyo), Katsuhiko Nagasaki (Tokyo), Hirokazu Onoe (Chiba, Japan) and Michihiro Saito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided with an information processing apparatus. An approximate discrimination unit discriminates an approximate type of an object from a first captured image obtained by capturing the object to which identification information is added. A setting unit sets, based on the approximate type of the object, an image capturing condition...