ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,544, issued on May 13, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).
"Endoscope system and image processing method" was invented by Kei Kubo (Hino, Japan) and Makoto Igarashi (Hachioji, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope system includes a light source apparatus to generate an illumination light including a first light in a red to near infrared region, a second light in a green region, and a third light in a blue region, an image pickup device to pick up an image of an object and output an image pickup signal, and a processor to generate a first to third color components corresponding to the first to third lights based on an i...