US Patent Issued to Canon on March 24 for "Image processing apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,400, issued on March 24, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium" was invented by Hidekazu Seto (Tokyo), Keisui Okuma (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yusuke Maeda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A training image that simulates a character block entered by part of a character in another row is generated efficiently. A noise is added in the vicinity of an end portion of a character image so that a noise that seems to be caused by entering of part of a character in another row is reproduced for the character image representing a handwritten character."

The paten...