US Patent Issued to TOSHIBA TEC on June 3 for "Image processing apparatus and image processing method with image rotation" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,797, issued on June 3, was assigned to TOSHIBA TEC K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus and image processing method with image rotation" was invented by Yoshitaka Hashimoto (Mishima Shizuoka, Japan) and Kazunori Hirabayashi (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes an interface and a processor. The interface acquires printing data including an image. If length in a longitudinal direction of the image is larger than a printing width of a medium on which the image is printed, the processor rotates the image."

The patent was filed on March 22, 2023, under Application No. 18/188,...