US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Sept. 22 for "Image processing device, image forming apparatus, and edge detection method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,786, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Image processing device, image forming apparatus, and edge detection method" was invented by Atsushi Yoshida (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device includes a processing circuit, a detection circuit, a setting circuit, and a decision circuit. The processing circuit obtains, from image data of a document read by a reading device, a value relating to a difference between pixel values of adjacent pixels in a direction from a background portion to a document portion in the image data. The detection circuit searches for a pixel in the di...