ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,753, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Signal processing device, signal processing method, program, and medical image processing system" was invented by Koji Kashima (Tokyo), Takeshi Miyai (Tokyo) and Junichiro Enoki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An EDOF signal processing unit performs EDOF signal processing as restoration processing on a special light image acquired by imaging an observation target irradiated with special light, and a setting unit sets a restoration degree of the EDOF signal processing for the EDOF signal processing unit. Then, a parameter for the restoration degree in the EDOF si...