US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on Feb. 4 for "Imaging system and endoscope" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,651, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging system and endoscope" was invented by Yasunari Harada (Ebina, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an imaging system, a video output circuit is configured to convert an analog video signal into digital data and output serial data including the digital data to a signal line on the basis of a serial clock having a higher frequency than a frequency of the camera clock. A camera-clock generation circuit is configured to generate the camera clock synchronized with the system clock output to the signal line. A serial-clock generation circuit is configured to generate ...