US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on June 16 for "Sheet identification device, image processing apparatus, and sheet identification method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,107, issued on June 16, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Sheet identification device, image processing apparatus, and sheet identification method" was invented by Kazuhiro Nakachi (Osaka, Japan), Kazunori Tanaka (Osaka, Japan), Takuya Miyamoto (Osaka, Japan), Shinichiro Yamada (Osaka, Japan), Rui Hamabe (Osaka, Japan) and Kanako Morimoto (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet identification device includes a light irradiation portion. When forming an identification image (Im1), the light irradiation portion projects, on an identification region (R1), pattern light (P1) including a vertica...