US Patent Issued on June 24 for "Image processing device, image processing method, and storage medium for controlling the display of the shape of the surface represented by surface data" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,458, issued on June 24.

"Image processing device, image processing method, and storage medium for controlling the display of the shape of the surface represented by surface data" was invented by Hirofumi Seo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device includes a UI controller and a rendering processor. The rendering processor obtains, from volume data constituted by multiple points, each point having a value, surface data representing the shape of a surface. The shape of the surface is defined by magnitude of each of the values. The UI controller sets a threshold for the values to determine whether to display the...