ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,686, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Image processing apparatus, method, and program" was invented by Naoto Masuzawa (Tokyo) and Satoshi Ihara (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor extracts, from an image including a plurality of structures that spatially continuously present and whose corresponding labels have a hierarchy, respective key points of the plurality of structures in association with labels of a first layer; uses the key points as nodes to derive a graph structure in which the labels of the first layer are associated with the nodes; and associates the nodes with labels of a second l...