US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on March 18 for "Circuit apparatus, electronic instrument, and error detection method" (Canadian, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,618, issued on March 18, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Circuit apparatus, electronic instrument, and error detection method" was invented by Kumar Anandabairavasamy Anand (Richmond, Canada), Hideki Matsuda (Chino, Japan) and Sebdani Mahmood Mazrouei (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit apparatus includes an image acquisition circuit, an error detection circuit, and a search circuit. The error detection circuit determines an indicator representing the degree of dissimilarity between a foreground image and a background image out of a display image based on the result of correlation operation and perf...