US Patent Issued to Sony Group on Dec. 30 for "Endoscope system, endoscope control method, and program with hysteresis compensation for autofovus control" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,868, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope system, endoscope control method, and program with hysteresis compensation for autofovus control" was invented by Masatoshi Onikubo (Tokyo) and Takashi Kawai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to an endoscope system, an endoscope control method, and a program that allow AF processing to be performed without deterioration in accuracy. Provided are a drive unit that drives a lens, a measurement unit that measures a position of the lens, and a control unit that controls focusing, the control of the focusing including setting a ...