ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,269, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, navigation method and endoscope system" was invented by Toshiyuki Fujii (Machida, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes a processor including hardware. The processor is configured to: set a first acquisition condition and a second acquisition condition for a video processor configured to acquire a first image that is based on a display-purpose acquisition condition for acquiring an image for display at a frame rate for viewing and a second image that is based on an analysis-purpose...