US Patent Issued to NIKON on Sept. 9 for "Image processing method, image processing device, and image processing program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,246, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method including acquiring a fundus image, extracting a first area including a first feature from the fundus image, extracting a second area including a second feature different from the first feature from the fundus image, and generating a combined image in which the extracted first area and the extracted second area are combined."

The patent was filed on O...