ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,545, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to HOYA Corp. (Tokyo).
"Endoscope processor and endoscope system" was invented by Takao Makino (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor for an endoscope includes an image processing unit that obtains a severity of a lesion in which a degree of progression is represented by one value, wherein the image processing unit includes a feature amount calculation unit configured to calculate a first pixel evaluation value indicating a degree of a first feature of appearance appearing in a lesion part, a representative value calculation unit configured to calculate a first representative evaluation...