US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on July 7 for "Method and apparatus for detecting foreign object included in inspection target" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,870, issued on July 7, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Method and apparatus for detecting foreign object included in inspection target" was invented by Kazuaki Nishio (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a foreign object included in an inspection target includes acquiring first image data for the target, for which pixels each have a pixel value for a first band group including one or more wavelength bands; determining, from the first image data, one or more pixel regions that satisfy a first condition to be one or more first foreign object regions; acq...