US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on May 27 for "X-ray diagnosis apparatus and image processing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,771, issued on May 27, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Tochigi, Japan).

"X-ray diagnosis apparatus and image processing apparatus" was invented by Takuya Sakaguchi (Tochigi, Japan), Kyojiro Nambu (Tochigi, Japan) and Hisato Takemoto (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A marker-coordinate detecting unit detects coordinates of a stent marker on a new image when the new image is stored in an image-data storage unit; and then a correction-image creating unit creates a correction image from the new image through, for example, image transformation processing, so as to match up the detected coordinates with reference...