US Patent Issued to Ricoh on May 27 for "Information processing device, determination method, and non-transitory recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,219, issued on May 27, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, determination method, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Tsuyoshi Sakamoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device includes circuitry to generate difference information related to a difference between a first image and a second image. The difference information has a plurality of areas. The circuitry further obtains a total value of differences in each of the plurality of areas as one of a plurality of total area difference amounts and determines whether the first image is same as t...