US Patent Issued to MITUTOYO on Dec. 9 for "Lens flare elimination method, image capturing apparatus, and image measuring apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,221, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to MITUTOYO Corp. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Lens flare elimination method, image capturing apparatus, and image measuring apparatus" was invented by Hiroyuki Yoshida (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuji Sadahira (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuki Yamasaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for eliminating lens flare that eliminates lens flare is provided. The lens flare elimination method performs: a step for acquiring images by irradiating the coaxial episcopic illumination light with varying irradiation intensities and capturing images at each irradiation intensity while the object is not placed on the...