US Patent Issued to NEC on April 14 for "Image processing device, image processing method and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,779, issued on April 14, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing device, image processing method and storage medium" was invented by Masahiro Saikou (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The image processing device 1X includes an acquisition means 31X, a mask image generation means 32X, and an identification means 33X. The acquisition means 31X acquires a captured image acquired by photographing an inspection target by a photographing unit provided in an endoscope. The mask image generation means 32X generates a plurality of mask images which indicate candidate areas of an attention part in the captured image by differe...