US Patent Issued to NIKON on Sept. 15 for "Device and method for image processing including vascular image processing" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,911, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Device and method for image processing including vascular image processing" was invented by Mariko Hirokawa (Yokohama, Japan), Yasushi Tanabe (Fujisawa, Japan) and Takahiko Yoshida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method performed by a processor and including: a step of acquiring a choroidal vascular image; a step of detecting a vortex vein position from the choroidal vascular image; a step of identifying a choroidal vessel related to the vortex vein position; and a step of finding a size of the choroidal vessel."

The patent was filed on March 8...