US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on June 2 for "Image processing apparatus and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,867, issued on June 2, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Image processing apparatus and image forming apparatus" was invented by Jezza Vinalon (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a storage device for storing a source image, a character region identifier that identifies a character region in the source image, an image acquirer that acquires an image of the character region from the source image, an annotation line identifier that detects an annotation lines in the character region, and identifies a position of the annotation line, and a generator that generates...