US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM HEALTHCARE AMERICAS on April 7 for "Systems and methods for altering images" (North Carolina, Georgia, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,092, issued on April 7, was assigned to FUJIFILM HEALTHCARE AMERICAS Corp. (Lexington, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for altering images" was invented by Keiichi Morita (Cary, N.C.), Jeffrey Minnich (Milton, Ga.) and Jeanmarie Rogers (Portsmouth, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for altering pixel brightness values in a digital image includes identifying a measured brightness value of each of the plurality of pixels; determining a location of the plurality of pixels corresponding to an artificial object in the digital image based on the measured brightness value of each of the plurality of pixels; and adjusting the measured ...