Patents by Inventor Rina Ra

Rina Ra has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Server apparatus, information processing apparatus, and communication method
    Patent number: 11775579
    Abstract: A server apparatus which transmits, to a plurality of other server apparatuses each of which performs subject recognition for an image, an image acquired from a client terminal and requests the plurality of other server apparatuses to perform subject recognition receives a result of subject recognition from each of the plurality of other server apparatuses, transmits, to the client terminal, subject information to be appended to metadata of the image based on the received result of subject recognition, and performs control to switch whether to, each time a result of subject recognition is received from each of the plurality of other server apparatuses, transmit, to the client terminal, subject information that is based on the received result of subject recognition or to transmit, to the client terminal, subject information that is based on a result obtained by integrating results of subject recognition received from the plurality of other server apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Rina Ra
  • SERVER APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD
    Publication number: 20210103612
    Abstract: A server apparatus which transmits, to a plurality of other server apparatuses each of which performs subject recognition for an image, an image acquired from a client terminal and requests the plurality of other server apparatuses to perform subject recognition receives a result of subject recognition from each of the plurality of other server apparatuses, transmits, to the client terminal, subject information to be appended to metadata of the image based on the received result of subject recognition, and performs control to switch whether to, each time a result of subject recognition is received from each of the plurality of other server apparatuses, transmit, to the client terminal, subject information that is based on the received result of subject recognition or to transmit, to the client terminal, subject information that is based on a result obtained by integrating results of subject recognition received from the plurality of other server apparatuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventor: Rina Ra