US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on Oct. 7 for "Processing device, endoscope system, and method for processing captured image" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,478, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Processing device, endoscope system, and method for processing captured image" was invented by Jun Hane (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing device includes a processor, the processor being configured to: acquire a captured image of an inside of a lumen; acquire lumen structure information indicating a structure of the lumen; determine whether the captured image can be analyzed or not and output analysis allowability/non-allowability information indicating whether the captured image is in an analysis allowable state or not based on the captured image and firs...