US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on May 19 for "Image processing apparatus, printing system, and image processing method for thin line processing" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,405, issued on May 19, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, printing system, and image processing method for thin line processing" was invented by Yoshio Okumura (Matsumoto, Japan), Naoki Kayahara (Chino, Japan), Tsubasa Nakatsuka (Shiojiri, Japan) and Yuto Tenguishi (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes a blurring processing unit configured to generate a blurred image by applying a two-dimensional Gaussian filter having a filter size of S1xS2 to an input image, and a resolution conversion unit configured to generate, from the blurred image, a converte...