US Patent Issued to CANON on Jan. 20 for "Image processing apparatus that improves compression efficiency of image data, method of controlling same, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,735, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus that improves compression efficiency of image data, method of controlling same, and storage medium" was invented by Hiroyuki Sakai (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus that makes it possible to reproduce image information without omission and improves the compression efficiency of image data. Character pixels are detected from an image generated by reading an original using a scanner. Color information for use in compressing image data is determined. A color-converted image image is generated on which colors o...