ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,690, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Endoscope system" was invented by Toshihiro Usuda (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope system includes an image obtaining unit that obtains an image obtained by image capturing of a photographic subject, a recognition unit that performs a recognition process of recognizing the photographic subject by using the image, an identification unit that identifies an operation performed on the photographic subject, a setting unit that enables or disables the recognition unit in accordance with the result of identification by the identification unit, and a...