US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on April 7 for "Endoscope system and coordinate system correction method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,962, issued on April 7, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope system and coordinate system correction method" was invented by Ryota Sasai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope system includes: an endoscope; a moving device that holds and moves the endoscope; and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to: detect a movement direction of the endoscope moved by the moving device in a coordinate system of the moving device; estimate an area of a moving body in an image captured by the endoscope; detect a movement direction of an object in the image on the basis of another area in the imag...