US Patent Issued to HOYA on Sept. 23 for "Electronic endoscope system for attenuating noise in ultrasound images using filter processing and pulse duration adjustment" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,608, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to HOYA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electronic endoscope system for attenuating noise in ultrasound images using filter processing and pulse duration adjustment" was invented by Masayuki Hagiwara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic endoscope system that acquires an ultrasonic image, and the electronic endoscope system includes: an electronic endoscope including, an image sensor that captures an image of a biological tissue, and an ultrasonic probe that applies ultrasonic waves to the biological tissue to obtain an echo signal; a captured image processor including an image processing unit tha...