ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,878, issued on March 11, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Multi-/hyperspectral two-dimensional image processing" was invented by Erik Gosuinus Petrus Schuijers (Breda, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an apparatus (100) comprising one or more processors (102) configured to acquire a multi-/hyperspectral two-dimensional image of an object at respective wavelengths. For at least one pixel of the image corresponding to a first point on an object surface, a set of intensity values for said at least one pixel is compared to a characteristic curve to determine a similarity mea...