US Patent Issued to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS on Oct. 14 for "Image processing device and image processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,098, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Image processing device and image processing method" was invented by Fumio Hashimoto (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes a feature extraction unit, a reconstruction unit, an evaluation unit, and a control unit. The feature extraction unit inputs an input image to a feature extraction NN, and outputs an intermediate image from the feature extraction NN. The reconstruction unit inputs the intermediate image to an m-th reconstruction NN, and outputs an m-th output image from the m-th reconstruction NN...