ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,188, issued on March 3, was assigned to KEYENCE Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Image processing apparatus" was invented by Yuma Shimada (Osaka, Japan) and Manabu Kido (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes: an imaging unit which generates workpiece images obtained by imaging a workpiece; and an image generation unit which generates an output image having a gradation value in a predetermined gradation range by converting the workpiece images sequentially input from the imaging unit. The image generation unit generates, for each of the input workpiece images, a gradation conversion condition for con...