US Patent Issued to HOYA on July 29 for "Endoscope system which displays a captured image of biological tissue on a screen" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,785, issued on July 29, was assigned to HOYA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope system which displays a captured image of biological tissue on a screen" was invented by Yoshihiro Hayashi (Tokyo) and Takao Makino (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope system includes: a light source device; an electronic endoscope including an image sensor that images a biological tissue by a rolling shutter method; and a processor including an adjustment unit that is a part adjusting luminance of the frame image by combining adjustment of an exposure time of the image sensor with at least one of adjustment of light intensity of the illumination li...