US Patent Issued to Sharp on Sept. 1 for "Image processing apparatus and image processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,437, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Image processing apparatus and image processing method" was invented by Naoya Arifuku (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a technology or the like including an acquirer that acquires an input image, a character recognizer that performs character recognition processing for recognizing a character included in the input image based on a first setting, an image processer that executes image processing on the input image based on a result of the character recognition processing, an outputter that outputs an output file using at least one of ...