US Patent Issued to Canon on May 19 for "Image processing apparatus, method for controlling same, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,959, issued on May 19, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, method for controlling same, and storage medium" was invented by Yukiko Uno (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomoya Asanuma (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroto Oka (Kanagawa, Japan), Taketsugu Yamashita (Tokyo), Yuuya Miyake (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tokichi Minami (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes a first reading unit configured to read a first image to read a visible light image of an occlusal surface in a mouth cavity, a second reading unit configured to read a second image to read a visible light image in a state where ...