US Patent Issued to CANON, CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Dec. 16 for "Image processing apparatus, medical image capturing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,570, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo) and CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Tochigi, Japan).

"Image processing apparatus, medical image capturing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Itaru Otomaru (Kanagawa, Japan), Kiyohide Satoh (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuta Narukiyo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus comprises: a model obtaining unit configured to obtain a learned model that has learned, based on a position of a predetermined feature point, a contour of a target in an image obtained by capturing the target; an image obtaining unit configured to obtain...