US Patent Issued to Canon on March 4 for "Verification apparatus, method of controlling the same, storage medium and printing system including the verification apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,221, issued on March 4, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Verification apparatus, method of controlling the same, storage medium and printing system including the verification apparatus" was invented by Yosuke Obayashi (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A verification apparatus reads an image of a printed sheet using a plurality of imaging units to obtain image data. The verification apparatus extracts feature points of the obtained image data and determines whether a feature point of first image data obtained by a first imaging unit should be a feature point of second image data that should be obtained by another imagin...