ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,736, issued on May 20, was assigned to LASERTEC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Image processing apparatus and image processing method" was invented by Masafumi Shinoda (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a photographing control unit configured to take a photographed image of a sample including a plurality of regions having different reflectances a plurality of times while a photographing condition that affects luminance of the photographed image is changed; a generation unit configured to generate a photographing condition map indicating a photographin...