US Patent Issued to CANON on Oct. 21 for "Image processing apparatus and image processing method that determine transmittance of an image based on defect information" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,800, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus and image processing method that determine transmittance of an image based on defect information" was invented by Takenori Tsukikawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus including a processor and a memory, having instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by the processor, cause the image processing apparatus to acquire a captured image of an inspection target, to detect defect information based on the image, to determine a transmittance of the image based on a trend in the defect information, to det...