US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on March 18 for "Image processing device, endoscope system, and image processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,626, issued on March 18, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing device, endoscope system, and image processing method" was invented by Hiroki Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an image processing device comprising a processor, in which the processor acquires a plurality of endoscopic images obtained by picking up images of an observation target with an endoscope, calculates a raw score related to a determination of a severity or a stage of a disease of the observation target, on the basis of each of the endoscopic images, decides a final score on the basis of the raw score,...