US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Nov. 3 for "Image processing device, endoscope system, and method of operating image processing device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,380, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing device, endoscope system, and method of operating image processing device" was invented by Hiroki Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching determination index value (red feature quantity), which is used to determine whether or not to switch a first observation environment to a second observation environment in which an object to be observed is enlarged at a second magnification ratio higher than a first magnification ratio is calculated on the basis of a first medical image that is obtained in the first observation environment ...