US Patent Issued to Canon on March 18 for "Controlling inspection of printed material based on reference image and scan image with alignment performed based on the number of feature points in the reference image" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,046, issued on March 18, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Controlling inspection of printed material based on reference image and scan image with alignment performed based on the number of feature points in the reference image" was invented by Kenichirou Haruta (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inspection system extracts feature points from a scan image and from a reference image, performs alignment of the scan image and the reference image based on the extracted feature points, inspects a printed material using the aligned scan and reference images, and performs processing in accordance with a method selected from...