US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on Sept. 16 for "Image processing device, operation method, and computer readable recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,675, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing device, operation method, and computer readable recording medium" was invented by Mitsutaka Kimura (Tokyo), Takehito Hayami (Tokyo), Takashi Kono (Tokyo), Yamato Kanda (Tokyo) and Ryoji Takami (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device includes a processor including hardware, the processor being configured to execute: estimating an operation state of a medical apparatus in a lumen of a subject based on information sequentially input from the medical apparatus, the medical apparatus including an imaging device, and an insertion por...