US Patent Issued to Canon on Feb. 3 for "Information processing apparatus and information processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,841, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing method" was invented by Hiromu Furukawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus executes instructions to search for inspection information in which a first image in an inspection target is captured and a defect region of the first image are associated, the inspection information corresponding to a second image in which the inspection target is captured, to extract a region corresponding to the second image from the searched information corresponding to the second image, to ...