US Patent Issued to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS on Oct. 21 for "Image processing device, image processing method, image processing program, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,700, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Image processing device, image processing method, image processing program, and recording medium" was invented by Osamu Yasuhiko (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Kozo Takeuchi (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a noise estimation step, a noise image included in a target image including linear noises extending along a first direction is estimated. In this case, an evaluation function including a first term representing a difference between a result obtained by performing differentiation processing in a second direction and low frequency compon...