ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,697, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).
"Image processing apparatus performs masking processing to prevent leakage of an image generated by printing process, image processing system, non-transitory computer readable medium storing image processing program, and image processing method" was invented by Masaki Abe (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: in a case of printing data to be printed, perform masking processing on a predetermined concealed portion according to a predetermined access policy; and perform a process ...