US Patent Issued to Canon on Oct. 14 for "Image processing apparatus that obtains item value and performs character recognition process on a document image, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,216, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus that obtains item value and performs character recognition process on a document image, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Hidetomo Sohma (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus acquires a character recognition result by performing character recognition processing on a document image, detects a character string candidate described in a predetermined format from the character recognition result, determines a likelihood of the character string candidate ...