ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,277, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing system, non-transitory computer readable medium, and method for determining non-blank sheet" was invented by Yushiro Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan), Masahiko Mizumura (Kanagawa, Japan), Seiji Shiraki (Kanagawa, Japan), Nagamasa Misu (Kanagawa, Japan) and Saki Shidara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing system includes an image reader that reads a document image and that generates image information regarding a CIELAB color space, and a processor configured to: obtain L*, a*, and b* histograms for the image info...