US Patent Issued to MITUTOYO on March 17 for "Image measurement system, image measurement method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,182, issued on March 17, was assigned to MITUTOYO Corp. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Image measurement system, image measurement method, and program" was invented by Hirato Sonobe (Miyazaki, Japan), Takeshi Saeki (Tokyo), Yukimasa Nishio (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryohei Kanno (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takahiro Ito (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an image measurement system including: a placement portion on which a measurement object is placed; an imaging unit configured to be relatively movable with respect to the placement portion; a movement control unit that switches between a high-speed movement mode and a low-speed move...