US Patent Issued to NIKON on Aug. 26 for "Image processing method, image processing device, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,642, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor acquires a fundus image, generates a choroidal vascular image from the fundus image, and detects a watershed of a choroidal vascular network in the choroidal vascular image."

The patent was filed on Oct. 15, 2019, under Application No. 17/769,305.

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