US Patent Issued to Canon on June 16 for "Image processing apparatus and control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,678, issued on June 16, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus and control method" was invented by Yuuichi Nitto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus presents a result of performing defect detection on an image captured of an inspection target as case information. The apparatus comprises an acquisition unit that acquires the case information according to first information including an image on which the defect detection is to be performed and a presentation unit that presents the case information acquired by the acquisition unit."

The patent was filed on April 10, 202...