查看更多>>摘要:By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning Daily News Daily News – According to news reporting originatin g from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx journalists, a patent application by the inve ntors HAMANO, HIDEYUKI (Kanagawa, JP); KANDA, AKIHIKO (Kanagawa, JP); MATSUI, YO HEI (Kanagawa, JP); SUGITANI, KUNIAKI (Kanagawa, JP), filed on February 15, 2024 , was made available online on August 22, 2024. No assignee for this patent application has been made. Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “ “Field of the Invention “The present invention relates to an inference apparatus, an image capturing app aratus, a training apparatus, an inference method, a training method, and a stor age medium. “Description of the Related Art “Image capturing apparatuses are known that perform focus adjustment whereby a s ubject is brought into focus by detecting distance information, such as a defocu s amount, from each of a plurality of focus detection regions inside a subject r egion that includes the subject. Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2022-137760 discl oses a technique to bring a main subject into focus by eliminating the influence of a blocking object that passes in front of the main subject. According to Jap anese Patent Laid-Open No. 2022-137760, a focus adjustment apparatus distinguish es a region of a blocking object that passes in front of a main subject by using a statistical value for distance values corresponding to subject distances in a plurality of autofocus (AF) regions.