Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Endoscope system having a first light source for imaging a subject at different depths and a second light source having a wide band visible band
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Application No.: US16691961Application Date: 2019-11-22
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Publication No.: US11070739B2Publication Date: 2021-07-20
- Inventor: Koji Matsumoto , Sho Shinji , Kenji Urushibata , Hiroyuki Kubo , Tetsuhiro Oka
- Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.
- Main IPC: H04N7/18
- IPC: H04N7/18 ; H04N5/235 ; A61B1/045 ; A61B1/06

Abstract:
An endoscope system of the present invention includes: a first illumination unit that emits first illumination light for imaging two sets of image information about a subject at different depths; a second illumination unit that emits second illumination light having a wide band covering a visible band from a position different from the position of the first illumination light; an imaging unit that images a first illumination image and a second illumination image of the subject that is illuminated with the first illumination light and the second illumination light; a separation processing unit that separates the two sets of image information from the first illumination image; and a separated-image generating unit that generates two separated images by processing the second illumination image using the two sets of image information.
Public/Granted literature
- US10863104B2 Endoscope system Public/Granted day:2020-12-08
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