US Patent Issued to CANON on June 23 for "Thermography image correction apparatus and method" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,615, issued on June 23, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Thermography image correction apparatus and method" was invented by Murray Cutforth (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Ewan Hemingway (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain embodiments provide a medical image processing apparatus comprising processing circuitry configured to: receive a thermography image, or a pair of medical images from which a thermography image is obtainable; estimate a temperature field corresponding to the thermography image or pair of medical images; and generate a corrected thermography image based on the thermography image or p...