US Patent Issued to Canon on May 6 for "Image processing apparatus, control method for image processing apparatus, and non-transitory storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,678, issued on May 6, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, control method for image processing apparatus, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Junya Arakawa (Nagareyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus acquires an image by reading a document, extracts a plurality of regions having a predetermined attribute from the acquired image, determines information about a registered document most similar to the acquired image from among information about a plurality of registered documents stored in a storage unit with use of positional information about the extracted plurality of regi...