US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS on March 17 for "Endoscope processor, endoscope apparatus, and diagnostic image display method to generate partial transparent image" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,711, issued on March 17, was assigned to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope processor, endoscope apparatus, and diagnostic image display method to generate partial transparent image" was invented by Akihiro Kubota (Hachioji, Japan), Yamato Kanda (Hachioji, Japan), Yasunori Morita (Hachioji, Japan), Naohisa Takabatake (Hachioji, Japan), Takashi Kono (Hachioji, Japan) and Hiroki Taniguchi (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope processor includes a processor. The processor discriminates, in first image information acquired by applying first illumination light, between first region image information ...