Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Endoscopic system with fog prevention for an observation window
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Application No.: US14954109Application Date: 2015-11-30
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Publication No.: US09642516B2Publication Date: 2017-05-09
- Inventor: Masashi Yasue
- 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.
- Priority: JP2013-214128 20131011
- Main IPC: A61B1/04
- IPC: A61B1/04 ; A61B1/12 ; G02B23/24 ; G02B27/00 ; A61B1/00 ; H04N5/225
Abstract:
An endoscopic system uses the distribution of a luminance level of a photographic image taken by an imaging unit at the distal end of an endoscope to determine whether an observation window has fogged up, and then raises the temperature by a heater and remove the fog on the observation window.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160081541A1 ENDOSCOPIC SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2016-03-24
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