US Patent Issued to TOPPAN on June 2 for "Image processing method and image processing program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,341, issued on June 2, was assigned to TOPPAN Inc. (Taito-ku, Japan).

"Image processing method and image processing program" was invented by Yasuyuki Hiraoka (Taito-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method includes acquiring an image in which a cell structure having a stained vascular network structure is imaged, applying a wavelet transform to the image such that a contour image in which contours of the vascular network structure are extracted is generated, and repeatedly excluding object pixels from object boundaries recognized in the contour image such that a skeleton image in which skeletons having a lin...