US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Sept. 22 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and recording medium for adding invisible error information and controlling image data output" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,853, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and recording medium for adding invisible error information and controlling image data output" was invented by Mika Inoue (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes circuitry; and a memory storing computer-executable instructions that cause the circuitry to execute detecting an error in a character, a word, or a sentence in image data; adding, to the image data, information of the detected error when the error is detected, as invisible information that cannot be viewed or ...