US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 9 for "Inspection apparatus, method, and non-transitory storage medium for inspecting print product" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,260, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Inspection apparatus, method, and non-transitory storage medium for inspecting print product" was invented by Shun Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inspection apparatus performs dropout color processing on a first inspection area set for an image generated by reading a print product and then performs first recognition processing on the first inspection area, and further performs second recognition processing on a second inspection area set for the image and then performs an inspection of whether sufficient margin areas are allocated on the second...