US Patent Issued to NIDEK on May 6 for "Ophthalmic image processing device and ophthalmic image processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,512, issued on May 6, was assigned to NIDEK Co. LTD. (Aichi, Japan).

"Ophthalmic image processing device and ophthalmic image processing method" was invented by Ryosuke Shiba (Aichi, Japan) and Yoshiki Kumagai (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ophthalmic image processing device processes an ophthalmic image of a subject eye. The ophthalmic image processing device includes a controller which acquires an ophthalmic image including a tomographic image of a plurality of tomographic planes in a subject eye, acquires a probability distribution for identifying two or more tissues included in a plurality of tissues in the tomog...