US Patent Issued to NIKON on April 15 for "Image processing method, program, image processing device, and ophthalmic system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,502, issued on April 15, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing method, program, image processing device, and ophthalmic system" was invented by Yasushi Tanabe (Fujisawa, Japan) and Mariko Hirokawa (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the present invention, vortex vein positions are detected from a fundus image. The image processing method comprising: a step in which a choroidal blood vessel structure is analyzed from a fundus image; and a step in which vortex vein positions are detected based on the choroidal blood vessel structure."

The patent was filed on Oct. 15, 2020, under Application No. 17/071,58...