US Patent Issued to Toshiba Tec on Feb. 17 for "Image processing apparatus and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,641, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus and image forming apparatus" was invented by Shinsaku Ito (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus has a storage unit and a scanner to read an image from a sheet, generate image data by the reading of the image from the sheet, and store the image data in the storage unit. A control unit combines a reading-direction image indicating a reading direction of the scanner with the generated image data to produce combined image data, and then stores the combined image data i...