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Sony patents method to fix uneven lighting in fluorescence images

Sony has filed a patent for a system that corrects uneven lighting, or shading, in images captured by a microscope. The system calculates specific adjustment values for different colors of light to ensure the final image is evenly lit.

Why it mattersThis improves the accuracy of scientific images used in research, ensuring that variations in brightness are due to the sample and not the camera setup.

In the filing’s own words

An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a calculation unit configured to calculate a correction coefficient per fluorescence wavelength, based on a captured image output from an imaging section, the correction coefficient being a coefficient for correcting shading of the captured image, and a correction unit configured to perform shading correction on the captured image per fluorescence wavelength, based on the correction coefficient.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising: a calculation unit configured to calculate a correction coefficient per fluorescence wavelength, based on a captured image output from an imaging section, the correction coefficient being a coefficient for correcting shading of the captured image; and a correction unit configured to perform shading correction on the captured image per fluorescence wavelength, based on the correction coefficient.

Facts

Company: Sony (SONY GROUP CORPORATION)
Official title: INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM
Publication number: US20260268463A1
Application number: 19489276
Filed: Jun 14, 2024
Published: Sep 10, 2026
Inventors: 1
Claims: 11

Classified under

G06T 5/92 Physics & computingG06T 5/40 Physics & computingG06T 7/11 Physics & computingG06T 7/136 Physics & computingG06T 7/174 Physics & computingG06T 2207/10056 Physics & computing

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