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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2016
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Tomohiro Yamada, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/026 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/0261 (2013.01); A61B 2576/00 (2013.01); G06T 7/0012 (2013.01);
Abstract
An information obtaining apparatus capable of obtaining information about a blood vessel with high accuracy includes a first unit configured to obtain three or more image data pieces different in imaging conditions, a second unit configured to obtain a first index value of a first region and a second index value of a second region, a third unit configured to select a pair of the image data pieces from the three or more image data pieces using the first index value and the second index value of the image data, and a fourth unit configured to obtain information about a blood vessel using the selected pair of the image data pieces.