ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,979, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Brother Kogyo K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Image processing apparatus, medium, and method" was invented by Shuhei Suzuki (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an image processing apparatus for a print executor, including a controller configured to execute direction determining processing. The direction determining processing including: determining whether a specified condition including a first condition is satisfied, the first condition indicating color difference pixels are present in a first partial image and an intermediate image, as well as the color difference pixels a...