US Patent Issued to Ricoh on June 30 for "Image reading apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,775, issued on June 30, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Image reading apparatus" was invented by Hironori Sasaki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Atsuki Nishigo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image reading apparatus includes a first white memory, a second white memory, an image reading device to acquire an image data with a resolution mode, circuitry to process signals of the image data, determine whether the image data is one of first white shading data as a reference, the first white shading data or the image data acquired from an original document read by the image reading device, temporarily store the first white shading ...