US Patent Issued to NIKON on June 10 for "Image processing method, image processing device, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,347, issued on June 10, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method, which is executed by a processor, comprises acquiring a choroidal vascular image, identifying, in the choroidal vascular image, a plurality of blood vessel center points of a choroidal blood vessel along a flow direction of the choroidal blood vessel, and computing a blood vessel diameter for each of the plurality of identified blood vessel center points."

The patent was filed on Sept. 14, 2021, u...