US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS on June 2 for "Control device, endoscope apparatus, and control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,700, issued on June 2, was assigned to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP. (Tokyo).

"Control device, endoscope apparatus, and control method" was invented by Yusuke Yabe (Chofu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes a processor. The processor controls an image sensor to read out first imaging signals in a first readout period, the first imaging signals being signals from a first quantity of pixels, and read out second imaging signals in a second readout period, the second imaging signals being signals from a second quantity of pixels, the second quantity being smaller than the first quantity, the second readout peri...