US Patent Issued to Vocsis, TOHOKU UNIVERSITY on Nov. 4 for "Image processing method, image processing program, and image processing device for partitioning a 3D object at narrow parts of shape" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,389, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Vocsis Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan) and TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Miyagi, Japan).

"Image processing method, image processing program, and image processing device for partitioning a 3D object at narrow parts of shape" was invented by Koji Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Koichi Ito (Miyagi, Japan) and Takafumi Aoki (Miyagi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an image processing method capable of intuitively recognizing the three-dimensional shape of an organ by limiting the inspection range to the vicinity of the diagnostic target organ in image diagnosis. Given binary three-dimen...