ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,357, issued on April 8, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Target part identification among human-body internal images" was invented by Masahiro Saikou (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a surgery assistance apparatus, a surgery assistance method, and a computer readable recording medium that includes a surgery assistance program recorded thereon that improve the accuracy of endoscopic surgery by identifying a target part image. A surgery assistance apparatus 1 includes a feature amount calculation unit 2 that calculates, from a human-body internal image captured using an endoscope, a feature amount of a target part ...