US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Sept. 1 for "Endoscopic image processing apparatus and endoscopic image processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,286, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP. (Tokyo).

"Endoscopic image processing apparatus and endoscopic image processing method" was invented by Hirokazu Nishimura (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image acquisition unit acquires an endoscopic image photographed by an endoscope. A segmentation unit partitions the endoscopic image into a plurality of regions. A depth information generator generates depth information indicating a depth of the endoscopic image. A recognition unit specifies a direction in which the endoscope is advanceable based on region information indicating a result of se...