US Patent Issued to Canon on May 19 for "Image processing apparatus and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,949, issued on May 19, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus and control method" was invented by Kohei Iwabuchi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuuichi Nitto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus comprises a display control unit that displays defect information detected from an image in which an inspection target is captured, on a display unit in association with the image. The display control unit controls a method of displaying the defect information based on a display size of at least one of the image and the defect information."

The patent was filed on April 10, 2023, under ...