US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 23 for "Information processing apparatus and method for candidate region merging" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,939, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and method for candidate region merging" was invented by Ritsuko Otake (Tokyo), Hidetoshi Izawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tomoya Honjo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "From an input image, a candidate area in which an object exists is acquired. Furthermore, a confidence score indicating a possibility that the object exists and a class probability are acquired. An overlap ratio between candidate areas is calculated for each combination of two arbitrary detection results, and a combination of detection results with an overlap ratio equal to...