ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,659, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Information processing for images of interest" was invented by Tetsuhiko Yao (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To make it possible to provide a photograph that meets the preference of a user. History information on an image purchased or viewed by a user and user information associating the user and a specific object with each other are obtained. Next, based on the obtained history information and the obtained user information, a weight for the preference of the user is derived. Then, based on the derived weight for the preference of the user, a still image that meets ...