US Patent Issued to Olympus Medical Systems on Nov. 11 for "Endoscope system and processor unit performing direction-based image processing" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,108, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Olympus Medical Systems Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope system and processor unit performing direction-based image processing" was invented by Hiroaki Kagawa (Sagamihara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope system includes an endoscope, at least one monitor, a first measuring instrument configured to measure a first direction, at least one second measuring instrument configured to measure a second direction, a reception circuit configured to receive the image from the endoscope, and a processor. The first direction corresponds to a horizontal component of an imaging direction of the end...