US Patent Issued to CANON on April 15 for "Inspection apparatus capable of reducing inspection workload, method of controlling inspection apparatus, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,700, issued on April 15, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Inspection apparatus capable of reducing inspection workload, method of controlling inspection apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Hiroyuki Sakai (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inspection apparatus that is capable of reducing a workload of an inspection operator. The inspection apparatus performs inspection of a print product. An image reading section reads the print product and generates a scanned image of the print product. A reference image analysis section detects a line region and a photo region from the scanned image. The detected line regi...