ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,541, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, method, and storage medium for determining exposure appropriate for partial detection of a subject" was invented by Shunsuke Chino (Saitama, Japan), Toshiyuki Dobashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Seiya Ohta (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires a captured image, a first detection unit that detects a subject from the image acquired by the acquisition unit, a second detection unit that detects a part of the subject from the image acquired by t...