US Patent Issued to CANON on June 23 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium, that obtain a single continuous character string based on character recognition results of a scanned image" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,806, issued on June 23, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium, that obtain a single continuous character string based on character recognition results of a scanned image" was invented by Keisuke Ito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus and method displays a scanned image obtained by scanning a document, including handwritten characters, printed characters, and objects on a UI screen for a user to designate a character area in the scanned image. When the designated character area includes strings of handwritten characters and a string...