US Patent Issued to Canon on July 8 for "Mobile terminal having a light source and an application to extract embedded information from an illuminated printed image and method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,085, issued on July 8, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Mobile terminal having a light source and an application to extract embedded information from an illuminated printed image and method" was invented by Hiroyuki Sakai (Chigasaki, Japan), Mitsuru Uratani (Kawasaki, Japan), Yuki Ishida (Kawasaki, Japan), Yuki Omagari (Tokyo) and Tomohiro Suzuki (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing unit captures an image including an embedded image that is printed on the basis of image data in which at least a color component has been modulated according to additional information. An adjustment unit adjusts a white b...