US Patent Issued to Canon on Aug. 19 for "Information processing device, information processing method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,036, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, information processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Atsushi Nogami (Kawasaki, Japan) and Yusuke Mitarai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided with an information processing device. A defect detecting unit detects a defect of an object in an input image. An extracting unit extracts a feature amount pertaining to a partial image of the defect from the input image, on the basis of a result of detecting the defect. An attribute determining unit determines an attribute of the defect using the feature amount pertaini...