US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 22 for "Inspection apparatus, method of controlling the same, printing system, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,766, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Inspection apparatus, method of controlling the same, printing system, and storage medium" was invented by Takashi Yabe (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inspection apparatus obtains image data to be inspected by reading printed matter. When an inspection process for inspecting a defect of the printed matter is set, an inspection process on the image data to be inspected, which has been obtained by reading the printed matter, is performed based on a reference image, and when a character quality inspection process for inspecting a quality of a character of th...