ELECTRONIC ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM
    21.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190125174A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-02

    申请号:US16095645

    申请日:2017-07-25

    Inventor: Takao MAKINO

    Abstract: An electronic endoscope system includes: an imaging element for imaging a subject illuminated alternately with narrow-band light and broadband light; generating, as a first image signal, an image signal of the subject imaged during an illumination period of the narrow-band light; and generating, as a second image signal, an image signal of the subject imaged during an illumination period of the broadband light. The system also includes a signal processing circuit for generating a high-intensity image signal by adding the first and second image signals together; for generating a low-intensity image signal by adding the first and second image signals together after a signal level of the second image signal is reduced and for generating an HDR image signal using the high-intensity and low-intensity image signals.

    EVALUATION VALUE CALCULATION DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20170273543A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-09-28

    申请号:US15505753

    申请日:2016-08-12

    Inventor: Takao MAKINO

    Abstract: An electronic endoscope system includes a plotting unit which plots pixel correspondence points, which correspond to pixels that constitute a color image that has multiple color components, on a first color plane according to color components of the pixel correspondence points, the first color plane intersecting the origin of a predetermined color space; an axis setting unit which sets a predetermined reference axis in the first color plane; a transform unit which defines a second color plane that includes the reference axis, and subjecting the pixel correspondence points on the first color plane to projective transformation onto the second color plane; and an evaluation value calculating unit which calculates a prescribed evaluation value with respect to the color image based on the pixel correspondence points subjected to projective transformation onto the second color plane.

    EVALUATION VALUE CALCULATION DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20230113382A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-13

    申请号:US18082143

    申请日:2022-12-15

    Inventor: Takao MAKINO

    Abstract: An electronic endoscope system includes a plotting unit which plots pixel correspondence points, which correspond to pixels that constitute a color image that has multiple color components, on a first color plane according to color components of the pixel correspondence points, the first color plane intersecting the origin of a predetermined color space; an axis setting unit which sets a predetermined reference axis in the first color plane; a transform unit which defines a second color plane that includes the reference axis, and subjecting the pixel correspondence points on the first color plane to projective transformation onto the second color plane; and an evaluation value calculating unit which calculates a prescribed evaluation value with respect to the color image based on the pixel correspondence points subjected to projective transformation onto the second color plane.

    ELECTRONIC ENDOSCOPE PROCESSOR AND ELECTRONIC ENDOSCOPIC SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20220296123A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-22

    申请号:US17834098

    申请日:2022-06-07

    Abstract: An electronic endoscope processor includes a converting means for converting each piece of pixel data that is made up of n (n≥3) types of color components and constitutes a color image of a biological tissue in a body cavity into a piece of pixel data that is made up of m (m≥2) types of color components, m being smaller than n; an evaluation value calculating means for calculating, for each pixel of the color image, an evaluation value related to a target illness based on the converted pieces of pixel data that are made up of m types of color components; and a lesion index calculating means for calculating a lesion index for each of a plurality of types of lesions related to the target illness based on the evaluation values calculated for the pixels of the color image.

    ENDOSCOPE PROCESSOR, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND PROGRAM

    公开(公告)号:US20210161363A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-03

    申请号:US17267686

    申请日:2020-03-11

    Inventor: Takao MAKINO

    Abstract: An endoscope processor or the like is provided which has a high ability to detect lesions. The endoscope processor includes an image acquisition unit that acquires a captured image taken by an endoscope, a first image processing unit that generates a first processed image based on the captured image acquired by the image acquisition unit, a second image processing unit that generates a second processed image based on the captured image, and an output unit that outputs an acquired disease status using a learning model, which outputs a disease status, when the first processed image generated by the first image processing unit and the second processed image generated by the second image processing unit are input.

    ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM
    27.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20210133974A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-06

    申请号:US16963405

    申请日:2019-02-06

    Inventor: Takao MAKINO

    Abstract: An endoscope system includes an image processing unit obtaining a severity of a lesion of a biological tissue in which a degree of lesion is digitized, from an image of the biological tissue that is obtained by imaging the biological tissue in a body cavity. The image processing unit includes a feature amount calculation unit calculating a plurality of pixel evaluation values corresponding to a plurality of features of an appearance, which are capable of discriminating each of the plurality of features of the appearance from a feature of a normal portion of the biological tissue by a shape and indicate each degree of plurality of features relevant to the color component indicated by the lesion portion or the color component and the shape, a representative value calculation unit calculating a representative evaluation value corresponding to each of the plurality of features of the imaged biological tissue.

    PROCESSOR FOR ELECTRONIC ENDOSCOPE AND ELECTRONIC ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20200345205A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-11-05

    申请号:US16642601

    申请日:2018-11-02

    Abstract: A processor for an electronic endoscope includes: a region detection unit configured to detect an enhancement processing target region to be enhanced from pixel information of a captured image of a living tissue; and an enhancement processing unit configured to perform enhancement processing on the enhancement processing target region detected by the region detection unit. The region detection unit is configured to repeat a candidate extraction process of extracting a focused pixel as a candidate for an enhancement processing target region when a signal level value of the focused pixel is smaller than signal level values of two farthest pixels located on both sides farthest from the focused pixel in any one of a plurality of pixel array directions in a region surrounded by a frame surrounding a region with the focused pixel as a center while changing a size of the frame.

    ELECTRONIC ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM
    29.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200008652A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-09

    申请号:US16489532

    申请日:2018-03-26

    Inventor: Takao MAKINO

    Abstract: An electronic endoscope system includes: an electronic endoscope including an image sensor that images a living tissue; a processor that performs image processing on an image obtained by imaging the living tissue; and a display that displays the image on which image processing has been performed. The processor includes: a feature amount calculation unit that calculates, as a feature amount, a ratio between differences of values of two color signals out of a plurality of color signals of each of pixels of the image from a reference value; and an image enhancement processing unit that enhances the image by determining a degree of increase or decrease of at least one of the values of the two color signals on the basis of the calculated ratio so as to perform enhancement processing on the image.

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