US Patent Issued to Canon on June 3 for "Image processing apparatus and image processing method that embeds information using a pattern with directivity and a pattern without directivity" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,564, issued on June 3, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus and image processing method that embeds information using a pattern with directivity and a pattern without directivity" was invented by Hiroyasu Kunieda (Kanagawa, Japan), Akitoshi Yamada (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoichi Kashibuchi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Jun Nagai (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes: a first obtaining unit configured to obtain an original image; a second obtaining unit configured to obtain region information indicating first and second regions, the first region read in reading of a print origi...