US Patent Issued to Canon on May 6 for "Inspection system, inspection apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,510, issued on May 6, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Inspection system, inspection apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium" was invented by Kenichirou Haruta (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inspection apparatus obtains a scanned image by reading a printed product, calculates a weighting factor of a weighting filter based on a difference between a value of a pixel of interest in a reference image used in creation of the printed product and values of peripheral pixels of the pixel of interest, performs filter processing by using the weighting filter having the weighting factors, with respect ...