US Patent Issued to Canon on July 14 for "Information processing device and information processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,260, issued on July 14, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device and information processing method" was invented by Koki Honda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yasuo Fukuda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing device including a first connecting unit determining that, when a difference between pixel values of two adjacent pixels is within a first range, the two adjacent pixels belong to the same first connected pixel group, a pixel value determination unit determining that a first condition is satisfied when, in a neighboring pixel group including a target pixel and a neighboring pixel, a rank of a pixel ...