US Patent Issued to Canon on June 30 for "Hypercomplex-number operation device and medical image diagnostic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,340, issued on June 30, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Hypercomplex-number operation device and medical image diagnostic apparatus" was invented by Hidenori Takeshima (Kawasaki, Japan) and Ryota Osumi (Nasushiobara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hypercomplex operation device according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires data including a hypercomplex number, inputs a parametric function in which a function form for a first component and a function form for a second component that is different from the first component differ from each other, inputs the data including a hyperc...