ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,967, issued on April 7, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Endoscope system and method of operating the same" was invented by Teppei Yamaki (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope system includes a processor, in which the processor performs exposure amount control based on an endoscope image captured by an endoscope including an imaging element, calculates brightness information indicating a degree of brightness of an edge portion of the endoscope image, and controls a tracking speed of the exposure amount control according to the brightness information. The brightness information is compared with past brig...