US Patent Issued to HOYA on July 1 for "Processor for electronic endoscope and electronic endoscopic system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,070, issued on July 1, was assigned to HOYA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Processor for electronic endoscope and electronic endoscopic system" was invented by Takao Makino (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspect of the present invention is a processor for an electronic endoscope that acquires a captured image of a living tissue and performs enhancement processing. The processor includes: a region detection unit configured to detect an enhancement processing target region in the captured image from pixel information of the captured image of the living tissue; and an enhancement processing unit configured to perform enhancement processing on ...