US Patent Issued to Canon, Luxonus on April 7 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,985, issued on April 7, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo) and Luxonus Inc. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" was invented by Shoya Sasaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Kenichi Nagae (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroki Kajita (Tokyo), Nobuaki Imanishi (Tokyo) and Sadakazu Aiso (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes a spectral image acquisition unit configured to acquire a spectral image that is an image generated using photoacoustic signals corresponding to a plurality of different wavelengths, based on photoacoustic waves generated b...