US Patent Issued to WIPOTEC on Nov. 3 for "Method and apparatus for detecting anomalies in two-dimensional digital images of products" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,424, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to WIPOTEC GmbH (Germany).

"Method and apparatus for detecting anomalies in two-dimensional digital images of products" was invented by Manuel Bastuck (Kaiserslautern, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for detecting anomalies in digital images of products. A digital image is divided into regions, wherein a region is detected as a maximum anomaly if the value of the at least one property is greater than a predetermined maximum threshold value, or as a minimum anomaly if the value of the at least one property is less than a predetermined minimum threshold. In a t...