US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on Sept. 23 for "Endoscope diagnosis support system, storage medium, and endoscope diagnosis support method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,491, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope diagnosis support system, storage medium, and endoscope diagnosis support method" was invented by Makoto Kitamura (Hachioji, Japan), Katsuyoshi Taniguchi (Hino, Japan), Hirokazu Godo (Hachioji, Japan), Takashi Kono (Hachioji, Japan), Toshiya Kamiyama (Tama, Japan) and Yamato Kanda (Hino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope diagnosis support system includes a processor. The processor performs detection of an anomaly candidate area from an endoscope image obtained by performing image pickup of an inside of a subject to obtain a detection result, a...