US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on March 11 for "Image processing system, endoscope system, and image processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,071, issued on March 11, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing system, endoscope system, and image processing method" was invented by Masato Kimura (Hino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing system includes at least one processor including hardware. The processor performs a process that acquires, as a processing target image sequence, images captured in a time series manner with an inside of a living body by an endoscope imaging device, a process based on a database generated by using a plurality of in-vivo images captured at earlier timings than timings at which the processing target image se...