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Patent No.:

US 12727748 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2026

Filed:

Mar. 29, 2024

Endoscope system and treatment method endoscopic treatment tool

Applicant:

Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Kenji Murakami, Hino, JP;

Genri Inagaki, Fuchu, JP;

Ryohei Ogawa, Kokubunji, JP;

Hidetoshi Nishimura, Koganei, JP;

Takashi Otawara, Hachioji, JP;

Yuji Sakamoto, Kunitachi, JP;

Shintaro Inoue, Westborough, MA (US);

Assignee:

OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:

Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

Primary Examiner:

Mohammad J Rahman

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/04 (2006.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/042 (2013.01); A61B 1/00006 (2013.01); A61B 1/00087 (2013.01); A61B 1/00094 (2013.01); A61B 1/00133 (2013.01);
Abstract

An endoscope system includes a direct-view endoscope configured to capture images, a treatment tool configured to be inserted into the endoscope, and a controller comprising hardware, the controller being configured to control a drive device to drive the endoscope and the treatment tool, to control driving of the endoscope to locate the endoscope inserted into a lumen in the vicinity of a nipple, to control driving of the treatment tool to move the nipple using the treatment tool, to acquire a first captured image of the nipple from the endoscope, and to predict a shape of a biliary duct connected to the nipple in the first captured image based on biliary duct shape information comprising a standard image of the nipple that is associated with a standard shape of the biliary duct.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Murakami, Kenji. (2026). Endoscope system and treatment method endoscopic treatment tool (U.S. Patent No. 12727748). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/12727748

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