US Patent Issued to LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS on March 25 for "Image processing apparatus and method for enhancing a phase distribution" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,529, issued on March 25, was assigned to LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS GMBH (Wetzlar, Germany).

"Image processing apparatus and method for enhancing a phase distribution" was invented by Kai Walter (Schriesheim, Germany) and Benjamin Deissler (Butzbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for enhancing an input phase distribution (I(xi)) is configured to retrieve the input phase distribution (I(xi)) and compute a baseline estimate (f(xi)) as an estimate of a baseline (I2 (xi)) in the input phase distribution (I(xi)). The apparatus is further configured to obtain an output phase distribution (O(xi)) based on the baseline est...