US Patent Issued to Canon on May 27 for "X-ray image processing apparatus, x-ray diagnosis apparatus, method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,782, issued on May 27, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"X-ray image processing apparatus, x-ray diagnosis apparatus, method, and storage medium" was invented by Takeshi Noda (Kanagawa, Japan), Katsuro Takenaka (Saitama, Japan), Haruki Iwai (Tochigi, Japan) and Daisuke Sato (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An X-ray image processing apparatus comprising: a first obtaining unit configured to obtain a first X-ray image including an object; a second obtaining unit configured to obtain a first measured value associated with an X-ray condition of the first X-ray image, a second X-ray image that does not include the object,...