US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA on Sept. 8 for "Determination-area decision method, computer-readable recording medium storing program, and component feeding apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,242, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Determination-area decision method, computer-readable recording medium storing program, and component feeding apparatus" was invented by Tomoyoshi Yukimoto (Hachioji, Japan), Yasuyuki Kamai (Tokyo) and Akinori Tadokoro (Koganei, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the first composite step, a plurality of images is superimposed. In the second composite step, a plurality of images of a second surface of the plurality of components is superimposed. In a first detection step, a feature amount of the first surface is detected using the plurality of images superimpos...