US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on April 14 for "Image processing device, printing system, and image processing program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,561, issued on April 14, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing device, printing system, and image processing program" was invented by Mitsuhiro Yamashita (Matsumoto, Japan), Takahiro Kamada (Matsumoto, Japan), Takuya Ono (Shiojiri, Japan) and Yuko Yamamoto (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device includes a shielding degree calculation section that calculates a shielding degree of a printed layer, and a rendering section. The rendering section is configured to generate at least one of the front surface view, in which the printed object is observed from the front surface side, ...