US Patent Issued to SCREEN HOLDINGS on Jan. 27 for "Image acquisition apparatus and image acquisition method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,619, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SCREEN HOLDINGS Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Image acquisition apparatus and image acquisition method" was invented by Takuya Yasuda (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an image acquisition apparatus, acquired are picked-up images 71 representing divided regions, respectively, which are obtained by dividing a predetermined region on a target object, and in the picked-up images 71, each image pair 72 representing adjacent divided regions has an overlapping region 73. The amount of relative positional deviation in each image pair 72 is specified by generating a similarity map 74 indicati...