US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on Jan. 28 for "Endoscope apparatus, operating method of endoscope apparatus, and information storage medium" (Japanese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,207,788, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope apparatus, operating method of endoscope apparatus, and information storage medium" was invented by Jumpei Takahashi (Halstenbek, Germany), Masashi Hirota (Hachioji, Japan) and Yasunori Morita (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope apparatus includes a processor. An image signal includes a first image signal corresponding to first light and a second image signal corresponding to second light. The processor determines at least one of whether or not a submucosa region or a bleeding region is included in an image based on the image signal. In...