ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,416, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Determination apparatus" was invented by Shoji Yachida (Tokyo), Keiko Inoue (Tokyo), Azusa Sawada (Tokyo) and Toshinori Hosoi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A determination apparatus includes: a dividing unit configured to divide chronological image data acquired by imaging a liquid filled in a container while switching between a plurality of illumination conditions, into chronological image data corresponding to the illumination conditions; and a determining unit configured to determine foreign matter contained in the container based on each of the chronological image ...