US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA on June 23 for "Image processing apparatus, radiation detector, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,632, issued on June 23, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, radiation detector, and recording medium" was invented by Koutarou Kanamori (Hachioji, Japan) and Ryo Higashide (Ichinomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes a first hardware processor that calculates an exposure index related to noise of a radiographic image based on image data of the radiographic image. The first hardware processor creates a density histogram of a region of interest set in the entire radiographic image or a part of the radiographic image, extracts a plurality of pixels having ...