US Patent Issued to Canon on Feb. 24 for "Image processing apparatus, method for controlling image processing apparatus, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,771, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, method for controlling image processing apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Haruna Yamazaki (Chiba, Japan) and Tomoki Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes a ring buffer memory configured to store a partial image representing part of a block image obtained by dividing a band image obtained by dividing a scanned image in a unit of a band, further in a unit of a block; a memory control unit configured to control a storage status of the partial image in the ring buffer memory, a p...