MUMBAI, India, Sept. 12 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517080491 A) filed by Olympus Medical Systems Corp., Tokyo, on Aug. 25, for 'image processing device, medical system, method for operating image processing device, and program.'
Inventor(s) include Sato, Tomoya; Igarashi, Takaaki; Kubota, Akihiro; Kanda, Yamato; and Morita, Yasunori.
The application for the patent was published on Sept. 12, under issue no. 37/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Provided are an image processing device, a medical system, a method for operating an image processing device, and a program with which it is possible to emphasize or suppress each of a microscopic structure and a microscopic blood vessel in an image, regardless of the observation distance. This medical device comprises a processor, wherein the processor acquires an image signal generated by imaging return light from a living body tissue and generates a display image by performing, on the image signal on the basis of localized contrast information in the image signal, at least one of an emphasizing process for emphasizing at least one of microscopic structure information regarding a microscopic structure and microscopic blood vessel information regarding a microscopic blood vessel, and a suppression process for suppressing at least one of microscopic structure information regarding a microscopic structure and microscopic blood vessel information regarding a microscopic blood vessel in the living body tissue."
The patent application was internationally filed on Jan. 25, 2024, under International application No.PCT/JP2024/002309.
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