US Patent Issued to NEC on Jan. 27 for "Endoscopic examination support apparatus, endoscopic examination support method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,006, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscopic examination support apparatus, endoscopic examination support method, and recording medium" was invented by Tatsu Kimura (Tokyo) and Takuma Igarashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the endoscopic examination support apparatus, the image acquisition means acquires an endoscopic video captured by an endoscope. The lesion detection means detects a lesion candidate from the endoscopic video. The heat map generation means generates a heat map indicating a possibility of lesion of the lesion candidate in the endoscopic video by a color. The display control mean...