Patent ID: 11921816
Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 10:
11. An image capturing system comprising:
an information processing apparatus comprising:
a storage unit that stores a first image acquired in response to a shooting instruction and a plurality of second images automatically acquired before the first image;
a specifying unit that specifies a subject in the first image;
a detection unit that detects the subject specified by the specifying unit in the plurality of second images acquired before the first image; and
a control unit that controls to adapt a plurality of sets each contains information on a region of the subject detected in each of the plurality of second images and the second image associated with the information as learning data; and

an image capturing apparatus comprising:
an image sensor;
a learning unit that generates an inference model for inferring the subject based on the information of the region of the subject detected by the detection unit; and
an inference unit that infers the region of the subject in an image shot by the image sensor using the inference model generated by the learning unit,

wherein each unit is implemented by one or more processors, circuitry or a combination thereof, and
wherein, in a case where a difference between the first image and the second image is smaller than a predetermined threshold, the detection unit does not perform the detection on the second image.