US Patent Issued to CANON on May 20 for "Medical image processing apparatus, medical image processing method and computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,659, issued on May 20, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Medical image processing apparatus, medical image processing method and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Yoshihiko Iwase (Kanagawa, Japan), Manabu Yamazoe (Tokyo), Hiroki Uchida (Tokyo) and Ritsuya Tomita (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical image processing apparatus includes: an obtaining unit configured to obtain a first image that is a medical image of a predetermined site of a subject; an image quality improving unit configured to generate, from the first image, a second image in which image quality is improved compared to the first...