US Patent Issued to NIKON on Sept. 23 for "Image processing method, program, ophthalmic device, and choroidal blood vessel image generation method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,784, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing method, program, ophthalmic device, and choroidal blood vessel image generation method" was invented by Mariko Hirokawa (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method comprising acquiring a first fundus image obtained by photographing a fundus using first light having a first wavelength, and a second fundus image obtained by photographing the fundus using second light having a second wavelength that is shorter than the first wavelength; specifying, in the first fundus image, respective positions of retinal blood vessels appear...