ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,479, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Image alignment apparatus, method, and program" was invented by Takuya Fuchigami (Tokyo) and Sadato Akahori (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image alignment apparatus includes at least one processor, and the processor derives, for each of first and second three-dimensional images each including a plurality of tomographic images and a common structure, first and second three-dimensional coordinate information that define an end part of the structure in a direction intersecting the tomographic image. The processor aligns the first three-dimensional image and the sec...