US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA on April 7 for "Image inspection apparatus, image inspection method, and image inspection program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,118, issued on April 7, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Image inspection apparatus, image inspection method, and image inspection program" was invented by Makoto Ikeda (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image inspection apparatus includes an image reader that reads an original image formed on a recording material based on a print job and generates a read image, and a hardware processor that analyzes the read image and performs an image inspection, wherein the hardware processor: acquires the read image from the image reader, detects an edge from the read image, and excludes a region near the edge from a ...