US Patent Issued to Sony Olympus Medical Solutions on May 13 for "Medical image processing apparatus and medical observation system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,553, issued on May 13, was assigned to Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc. (Tokyo).

"Medical image processing apparatus and medical observation system" was invented by Taihei Michihata (Tokyo) and Aki Mizukami (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory controller 931, in a first observation mode, writes a first captured image into a first memory area of a memory 92, reads first to fourth divided images obtained by dividing the first captured image from first to fourth divided areas of the first memory area, respectively, and outputs the first to fourth divided images to image processing units 932 to 935, respectively, and in a se...