US Patent Issued to FUJILFILM on June 30 for "Endoscopic photographic device, endoscopic photographic method, and endoscopic photographic program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,589, issued on June 30, was assigned to FUJILFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscopic photographic device, endoscopic photographic method, and endoscopic photographic program" was invented by Azuma Takahashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor acquires an endoscopic image of a subject to be examined that is picked up by an endoscope inserted into a body of the subject to be examined. The processor searches for a similar endoscopic image, which has characteristics similar to characteristics of the acquired endoscopic image, from a plurality of diagnosed endoscopic images with reference to an external device in which the plurality...