US Patent Issued to Canon on May 27 for "Image processing apparatus, non-transitory storage medium, and image processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,279, issued on May 27, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, non-transitory storage medium, and image processing method" was invented by Yusuke Muramatsu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a character string corresponding to a predetermined item is not extracted in a first document image as a processing target by entity extraction processing, the character string corresponding to the predetermined item in the first document image is acquired based on positional information about an area where the character string corresponding to the predetermined item is previously extracted in a second document im...