US Patent Issued to Canon on June 23 for "Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,370, issued on June 23, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Tomoaki Higo (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a technique of generating a disclosable document image based on a document image including confidential information, without using the confidential information. A document input unit obtains a document image scanned with a scanner, separates the document image into character information and background information, and then outputs them to an extraction unit. The extraction unit per...