US Patent Issued to CANON on Jan. 20 for "Inspection apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,763, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Inspection apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium" was invented by Takeshi Shinya (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an inspection apparatus that inspects an image formed on a recording medium by a printing apparatus. The inspection apparatus stores, as a reference image, image data used to form an image on the recording medium, obtains target image data to be inspected, by reading an image to be inspected formed on the recording medium. The inspection apparatus applies noise components to the reference image, ...