US Patent Issued to NIKON CORPORATION;, UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA on July 21 for "Image processing method, image processing device, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,486, issued on July 21, was assigned to NIKON CORPORATION; (Tokyo) and UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA (Tsukuba, Japan).

"Image processing method, image processing device, and program" was invented by Naoki Fukutake (Tokyo), Yoshiaki Yasuno (Tsukuba, Japan) and Shuichi Makita (Tsukuba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device illuminates light from a light source through an optical system with a first numerical aperture onto an examined eye, transmits signal light returning from the examined eye through an optical system with a second numerical aperture, and divides a reference light from the light from the light source....