US Patent Issued to HUMAN ENGINEERING on June 23 for "Determination device, determination method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,058, issued on June 23, was assigned to HUMAN ENGINEERING Co. LTD (Japan).

"Determination device, determination method, and program" was invented by Takayuki Sota (Tokyo), Atsushi Nakamura (Tokyo), Ayaka Murata (Tokyo), Hiroshi Koga (Nagano, Japan) and Akane Minagawa (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A determination device 1 includes: an acquisition unit 21 that acquires digital color image data 11 of a region of interest in melanonychia of a subject; a calculation unit 23 that calculates an indicator value 12 from variation in RGB values of each pixel of the digital color image data 11; and an output unit 24 that outputs...