US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Sept. 15 for "Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and image processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,853, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and image processing method" was invented by Tomoaki Chono (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interpolation unit generates a vector array representing a movement destination of a representative point array. A smoothing unit smoothes a tangential component and a normal component of each vector of the vector array, to generate a smoothed vector array. An aligning unit generates a new representative point array based on the smoothed vector array. In this process, alignment is performed for each representative point sequence. A...