ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,500, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus for capturing a moving image using a calculated exposure amount dependent upon parts and orientations of detected human bodies in an image" was invented by Shu Kato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect a human body in an image, a discrimination unit configured to discriminate a part and an orientation of a detected human body in a case where a plurality of human bodies is detected by the detection unit, a photometry unit configured to, in a case where a plurali...