US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on July 28 for "Image reading device and image reading method for document detection" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,837, issued on July 28, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image reading device and image reading method for document detection" was invented by Wataru Beppu (Kitakyushu, Japan), Rei Tsutsui (Kitakyushu, Japan), Noriyuki Koyanagi (Kitakyushu, Japan), Kazuhiko Arimori (Kitakyushu, Japan) and Keiichiro Fukumasu (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a size of a document is not specified, a control unit of an image reading device identifies, for image data generated as a reading result by a reading unit, a region of the document by detecting an edge of the document. When the size of the document is specified, the ...