US Patent Issued to Canon on April 7 for "Image processing apparatus with automated division of scanned forms into individual documents, and image processing method and storage medium for same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,285, issued on April 7, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus with automated division of scanned forms into individual documents, and image processing method and storage medium for same" was invented by Kenta Inoue (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus obtains scanned images by scanning forms of a plurality of types; manages page counts associated with feature information of previous scanned images of respective form types; analyzes each of the scanned images to determine, based on the feature information, whether the analyzed scanned image is similar to any of the previo...