ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,002, issued on March 31, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Control apparatus, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Seiji Abe (Kanagawa, Japan), Mitsuru Uratani (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kouta Murasawa (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus that functions as a control unit controlling printing of a fluorescent material patch on a printing medium, an estimation unit to estimate a discharge amount of the fluorescent material based on a reflection intensity obtained by receiving light reflected by the patch on the printing medium, and a correction unit to correct a printing amount of the fluore...