ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,609, issued on July 15, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Apparatus for generating an augmented image of an object" was invented by Rafael Wiemker (Kisdorf, Germany), Liran Goshen (Pardes-Hanna, Israel), Jorg Sabczynski (Norderstedt, Germany) and Tobias Klinder (Uelzen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention refers to an apparatus (110) for generating an augmented image comprising a) a base image providing unit (111), wherein the base image is generated based on a combination of spectral image data, b) a contrast image providing unit (112), wherein the contrast image is generated based ...