US Patent Issued to Resonac on Oct. 27 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,044, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Resonac Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program" was invented by Yu Okano (Tokyo), Kazuki Ueda (Tokyo), Shimpei Takemoto (Tokyo), Shinya Hirasawa (Tokyo) and Yoshishige Okuno (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes a memory; and a processor configured to: generate a binary image from a target image by using a first trained model that binarizes the target image into object regions and a background region and generates the binary image; predict contour lines of the object regions in the binary image by ...