US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 16 for "Image processing apparatus capable of generating color-reduced image with high object reproducibility, control method for image processing apparatus, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,622, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus capable of generating color-reduced image with high object reproducibility, control method for image processing apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Hiroyuki Sakai (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus capable of generating a color-reduced image with high object reproducibility is provided. The image processing apparatus includes a data processing unit configured or programmed to function as a generating unit generating a binary image for judging whether each of pixels constituting an image obtained...