- Patent Title: Endoscope system for processing second illumination image using image information other than image information about outermost surface side of subject among three image information from at least four images of first illumination images
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Application No.: US16702839Application Date: 2019-12-04
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Publication No.: US11324385B2Publication Date: 2022-05-10
- Inventor: 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: A61B1/00
- IPC: A61B1/00 ; A61B1/05 ; A61B1/06 ; A61B1/07

Abstract:
An endoscope system according to the present invention includes: a first illuminating portion that emits first illumination lights having low-spatial-frequency and high-spatial-frequency and changes the intensity distribution of the first illumination lights over time; a second illuminating portion that emits a second illumination light; an imaging unit that images first and second illumination images of an subject respectively illuminated by the first and second illumination lights; and an image-processing portion that processes the first and second illumination images. The imaging unit images four images including images that correspond to the first illumination lights having low-spatial-frequency and high-spatial-frequency and images in which light and dark portions of the first illumination lights are exchanged with each other. The image-processing portion separates three image information for different depths, and processes the second illumination image by the image information other than the image information about the outermost surface side.
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