US Patent Issued to NIKON on Nov. 4 for "Image processing method, image processing program, image processing device, image display device, and image display method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,222, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing method, image processing program, image processing device, image display device, and image display method" was invented by Mariko Hirokawa (Yokohama, Japan), Yasushi Tanabe (Fujisawa, Japan) and Tomoharu Fujiwara (Gyoda, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An enhancement image processing section performs enhancement image processing on a fundus image of a subject eye to enhance vascular portions (304). A prediction processing section predicts a non perfusion area in the fundus image that has been subjected to the enhancement image processing (306 to 312). A...