Surgery – Endoscope – With camera or solid state imager
Reexamination Certificate
2007-06-26
2010-12-28
Leubecker, John P (Department: 3739)
Surgery
Endoscope
With camera or solid state imager
C600S117000, C600S118000, C600S407000, C600S424000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07857752
ABSTRACT:
A medical image processing apparatus having an image conversion section including a coordinate-system converting section for converting an image in an orthogonal coordinate system to an image in a polar coordinate system, for geometrically converting a medical image of a tubular part in vivo picked up and obtained by the coordinate-system converting section; a squamocolumnar junction detecting section for detecting a squamocolumnar junction that is a junction between a squamous epithelium and a columnar epithelium on the image of the polar coordinate system; and an analyzing section for comparing an evaluation value for a feature value determined for the detected squamocolumnar junction and a predetermined reference value and calculating an analysis result.
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Office Action mailed Oct. 5, 2010 by the Japan Patent Office.
Hasegawa Jun
Inoue Ryoko
Nishimura Hirokazu
Tanaka Hideki
Candler Samuel
Leubecker John P
Olympus Corporation
Scully , Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.
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