US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on March 25 for "Endoscopic image processing apparatus, endoscopic image processing method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,889, issued on March 25, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscopic image processing apparatus, endoscopic image processing method, and recording medium" was invented by Makoto Kitamura (Hachioji, Japan), Yamato Kanda (Hino, Japan) and Katsuyoshi Taniguchi (Hino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscopic image processing apparatus is configured to generate a display image including one main screen and one or more sub-screens smaller than the main screen for displaying an endoscopic image obtained by picking up an image of an object in a subject with an endoscope. The endoscopic image processing apparatus includes a ...