ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,873, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image processing apparatus" was invented by Yoshihito Hiroe (Tagata Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes a memory, a scanner, and a processor configured to: control the scanner to read an image formed on a sheet along a reading direction, and store data of the read image in the memory, determine a plurality of regions of the image, select one of the regions based on a whiteness or saturation level of color thereof, and add a first image indicating the reading direction to said one of the regions, and store data of the i...