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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2020
Applicant:
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/33 (2006.01); G01J 3/28 (2006.01); G01J 3/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/332 (2013.01); G01J 3/2823 (2013.01); G01J 3/36 (2013.01); G01J 2003/2826 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image processing method includes: an image pickup step of picking up an RGB image of a target object to be picked up, and picking up a spectroscopic image of the target object in a predetermined wavelength range and thus acquiring spectroscopic information peculiar to the target object in the wavelength range; and a display step of displaying a complemented image complemented by superimposing the spectroscopic information on the RGB image.