US Patent Issued to SCREEN HOLDINGS on Oct. 7 for "Image comparison method, image comparison device, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium recording image comparison program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,446, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SCREEN HOLDINGS Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Image comparison method, image comparison device, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium recording image comparison program" was invented by Atsushi Imamura (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "After a difference image between original image and calibration image is generated, a candidate image of an edge region is generated. Thereafter, an edge image is generated based on the original image, the calibration image, and the candidate image. At that time, the processing target pixel (pixel constituting the candidate image) is determin...