US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on May 19 for "Image processing apparatus, method, and program for smoothing boundary of segmented region" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,920, issued on May 19, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, method, and program for smoothing boundary of segmented region" was invented by Satoshi Ihara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor is configured to convert a size of a target image to derive a size-converted image, segment the size-converted image into regions of at least one class by using a segmentation model constructed by machine-learning a neural network to derive a plurality of class images in which a pixel value of each pixel represents class-likeness for the at least one class, convert a size of at least one class image int...