ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,503, issued on June 24, was assigned to Kyocera Document Solutions Inc. (Japan).
"Image processing apparatus" was invented by Shiro Kaneko (Osaka, Japan), Kanako Morimoto (Osaka, Japan), Takuya Miyamoto (Osaka, Japan) and Naomichi Higashiyama (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus compares a target image and a reference image and thereby detects an anomaly in the target image, and includes an anomaly detecting unit. The anomaly detecting unit is configured to (a) generate a first characteristic map obtained by performing a filter process for the target image and a second characteristic map obtained...