US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on Sept. 8 for "Image reading apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,581, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Image reading apparatus" was invented by Yasuyuki Horiguchi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first reference portion has a lower surface of a first color. A second reference portion is adjacent to the first reference portion in a first direction and has a lower surface of a second color. A data processing portion executes a color determination process of determining whether one or more reference pixel data of a reference area in line image data is data of the first color or the second color. A control device sequentially selects a p...