US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on April 15 for "Ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus for displaying ultrasound image with respect to living body and image processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,708, issued on April 15, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus for displaying ultrasound image with respect to living body and image processing method" was invented by Ryota Hasegawa (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a target image generated by multi-resolution processing, a pixel of interest and a group of reference pixels are designated. In a corresponding image belonging to a level that is one level above, pixel value patterns are compared between a corresponding region of interest and corresponding reference regions so as to calculate weights. A modified pixel-of-interest value is de...