US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Nov. 18 for "Image processing device, manipulator system, image processing method and display method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,664, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP. (Tokyo).

"Image processing device, manipulator system, image processing method and display method" was invented by Ryota Yanagawa (Hachioji, Japan) and Kosuke Kishi (Mitaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device includes a processor. The processor acquires shape information about a variable shape of a manipulator. The processor displays on a display a CG image of a manipulator model as viewed from a virtual camera in an object space, based on the shape information. The processor executes a rotation process of rotating a viewing direction o...