US Patent Issued to HOYA on Sept. 23 for "Endoscope system having a three-dimensional expansion processor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,503, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to HOYA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope system having a three-dimensional expansion processor" was invented by Minsul Jang (Tokyo) and Kohei Iketani (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope system includes an endoscope that captures a living tissue in a body cavity, and an image processing unit. The endoscope includes an objective lens provided on a front side of a light receiving surface of an image sensor and configured to simultaneously form images of the living tissue, obtained through a plurality of windows, on the light receiving surface as the captured image. The image processing unit...