US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on June 3 for "Endoscope control apparatus, endoscope control method, and storage medium storing a program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,063, issued on June 3, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope control apparatus, endoscope control method, and storage medium storing a program" was invented by Hirokazu Nishimura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image acquisition unit acquires an endoscopic image imaged by an endoscope inserted inside a subject. An operation detail determination unit determines one or more operation details from among a predetermined plural number of operation details based on the endoscopic image acquired in the image acquisition unit. An operation control unit controls a movement of the endoscope based on the determined operation...