US Patent Issued to Canon on March 31 for "Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, learning apparatus, and image processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,899, issued on March 31, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, learning apparatus, and image processing method" was invented by Shoya Sasaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Naoya Iizuka (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kenichi Nagae (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, comprising: an ultrasonic probe which scans an observation region in an object with an ultrasonic wave; and an estimated image generating unit which, by using a model having been machine-learned using learning data including first data based on a first received signal that is obtained by first transmission/recepti...