Patents by Inventor Sato Tsutomu

Sato Tsutomu has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8849024
    Abstract: An image processing device can explicitly distinguish cells to be observed from cells other than those to be observed with a simple configuration. To this end, the image processing device includes a color information obtaining part obtaining at least hue from color information of each pixel of a color image, a detecting part detecting a mode value of the hue on a color space, a range setting part setting a predetermined range on the color space including the mode value of the hue detected by the detecting part as a target range, a changing part changing hue of a pixel included in the target range by virtually performing extension on the target range, and an information converting part converting color information of a pixel having hue not included in the target range into color information indicative of an achromatic color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Tomotaka Shinoda, Toshihiro Mitaka, Hideki Ito, Satoshi Mori, Sato Tsutomu, Satoshi Iyama