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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2020
Pfu Limited, Kahoku, JP;
Masaaki Sakai, Kahoku, JP;
PFU LIMITED, Kahoku, JP;
Abstract
Provided are a medium conveyance apparatus, control method, and control program is to enable more precisely detecting an end part in a main scan direction of a medium from an image. A medium conveyance apparatus includes a conveying module to convey a medium, an imaging device to capture an image of the conveyed medium, a storage device to store a low reliability region inside an input image of a medium captured by the imaging device based on a positional relationship between an imaging position of the imaging device and arrangement position of the conveying module, an edge pixel detection module to detect edge pixels from the input image, an end part detection module to detect an end part in a main scan direction of the medium based on edge pixels detected from a region not including the low reliability region inside the input image, and an output control module to output information relating to the detected end part.