US Patent Issued to Canon on March 17 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and printing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,658, issued on March 17, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and printing apparatus" was invented by Junichi Nakagawa (Tokyo) and Yuto Kajiwara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit to obtain image data, a judgment unit to judge whether a barcode is included in the image data for each piece of band data corresponding to a printable region by scanning a printing unit, the barcode formed of a region in which bars are arranged side-by-side in a direction in which the printing unit scans over a printing medium, the ju...