US Patent Issued to NIKON on Feb. 24 for "Image processing method, image processing device, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,982, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing method, image processing device, and program" was invented by Mariko Hirokawa (Yokohama, Japan) and Yasushi Tanabe (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Image processing performed by a processor and including acquiring a two-dimensional fundus image, acquiring a second point on an eyeball model corresponding to at least one first point of the two-dimensional fundus image, and creating data to represent a process to move the first point to the second point."

The patent was filed on Oct. 25, 2019, under Application No. 17/770,878.

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