US Patent Issued to NIKON on July 15 for "Image processing method, image processing device, and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,590, issued on July 15, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing method, image processing device, and program" was invented by Mariko Hirokawa (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method performed by a processor and including detecting positions of plural vortex veins in a fundus image of an examined eye, and computing a center of distribution of the plural detected vortex vein positions."

The patent was filed on Nov. 12, 2020, under Application No. 17/782,093.

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