US Patent Issued to University of Tsukuba on Oct. 14 for "Image generation device, program, and image generation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,100, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to University of Tsukuba (Tsukuba, Japan).

"Image generation device, program, and image generation method" was invented by Shuichi Makita (Tsukuba, Japan) and Yoshiaki Yasuno (Tsukuba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image generation device includes a tomographic image acquisition unit configured to acquire an OCTA tomographic image that captures a distribution of a blood flow of an object, a light attenuation acquisition unit configured to acquire a light attenuation of measurement light emitted to the object in a direction in which the tomographic image is layered, and an image generatio...