US Patent Issued to HITACHI on June 23 for "Image processing apparatus and image processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,661, issued on June 23, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus and image processing method" was invented by Stephanie Sutoko (Tokyo), Hirokazu Atsumori (Tokyo), Ayako Nishimura (Tokyo), Tsukasa Funane (Tokyo) and Akihiko Kandori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes: an inner region setting unit and a peripheral region setting unit setting, for an inner region in a medical image, a peripheral region in the medical image; an intensity value group probability distribution calculation unit calculating an inner region histogram for the inner region and calculating a periph...