US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on Sept. 16 for "Image processing apparatus, diagnosis supporting method, and recording medium recording image processing program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,674, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, diagnosis supporting method, and recording medium recording image processing program" was invented by Mitsutaka Kimura (Hino, Japan), Yamato Kanda (Hino, Japan) and Akihiro Kubota (Kokubunji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor receives an observation image of a subject or the observation image and system information, detects a lesioned part candidate from the observation image, estimates a deterioration risk of endoscopy quality from the observation image or the system infor...