US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on March 11 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,046, issued on March 11, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program" was invented by Wataru Fukuda (Kanagawa-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus acquires a first low-energy image and a first high-energy image captured in a state in which a grid for removing scattered rays is inserted between a radiation source and a radiation detector, and the radiation source is disposed at a first position at which an incidence direction of radiation is a normal direction with respect to the grid, acquires a second low-energy image a...