ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,252, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Osaka, Japan).
"Image processing apparatus and image processing method" was invented by Kenji Onogi (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes: a document conveyor that conveys a document; an image reader that reads an image of the conveyed document; at least one main memory; a data transfer circuit; and one or more controllers, whereas the controllers determine whether to read an image of each page in a first reading mode or a second reading mode, the first reading mode being a mode in which conveyance of the next document is started before ...