US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS, NATIONAL CANCER CENTER on Sept. 8 for "Learning support device, endoscope system, and method for supporting learning" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,218, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo) and NATIONAL CANCER CENTER (Tokyo).

"Learning support device, endoscope system, and method for supporting learning" was invented by Ryota Sasai (Tokyo), Masaaki Ito (Tokyo), Atsushi Yamada (Tokyo), Hiroki Matsuzaki (Tokyo), Hiro Hasegawa (Tokyo), Kazuyuki Hayashi (Tokyo) and Yuki Furusawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A learning support device includes a processor. The processor is configured to: form a foreground image containing at least one treatment instrument by placing an image of the at least one treatment instrument within an image region; form a superimpos...