ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,554, issued on March 25, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscopic image processing apparatus" was invented by Misaki Meguro (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a case where a first specific scene recognized at a time of insertion of an endoscope is stored in a specific scene memory and a recognized scene recognized by a scene recognition unit is a scene on a side deeper than the first specific scene in a direction of movement of the endoscope, the recognized scene is output without being changed. In a case where the first specific scene is stored in the specific scene memory and the recognized scene is a scene on a s...