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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7215486 | Zoom lens and electronic imaging device having the same A zoom lens includes a most object-side lens unit remaining fixed on the optical axis when the magnification of the zoom lens is changed and a focusing operation is performed; a most image-side lens unit remaining fixed when the focusing operation is performed; and ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7179223 | Endoscope apparatus having an internal channel An endoscope apparatus having an internal channel comprises a scope portion in which a flexibly bending portion is provided at an elongated insert portion having a flexibility, the insert portion being inserted into a space which is a target of inspection, and a man... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7041053 | Endoscope provided with a section for bending the endoscope An endoscope is provided with a centering control section and a centering button. The centering control section is configured to control a bending mechanism in such a manner as to return a bendable portion to a neutral position where the bendable portion is substant... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6792203 | Camera and distance measuring apparatus used in the same In a camera a pickup element images an object image. An A/D converter A/D converts an output of the pickup element. A processing section includes a night scene judging section for judging whether or not the scene to be photographed is the night scene on the basis of... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6773393 | Apparatus and method for detecting and displaying form of insertion part of endoscope A shape-of-endoscope detecting apparatus generally includes a shape detection unit, a marker, a marker locator unit, and a display control unit. The shape detection unit detects the shape of a portion of an insertion unit of an endoscope inserted into a subject, and... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6774944 | Image taking apparatus Light rays emanating from an object are received by a first optical system, and converged to form intermediate images on a movable mirror to be driven to vibrate and at positions near the movable mirror. Light rays forming the intermediate images are converged to fo... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6752550 | Holding mechanism for replacement ink ribbon A holding mechanism 10 for holding an ink ribbon 20 includes a transparent shell 11 and a board 12. The transparent shell 11 of the ink ribbon 20 is provided with wind slack preventive portions 11a to 11... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6609135 | Image file equipment, and database creating method in an image file equipment Image data is stored in any MO medium, and association information for associating image information in an MO medium with identification information for specifying the MO medium is managed by the respective image management tables of a plurality of image ... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6602185 | Remote surgery support system A first signal transmission apparatus installed in an operating room and a second signal transmission apparatus installed in a remote control room in a remote place are linked by a public line. Assuming that surgery is performed on a patient using a surgi... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6595819 | Equipment for fabricating partitioning ribs of plasma display device This invention provides equipment for fabricating partitioning ribs of a plasma display device. The equipment comprises a head, a driver, an X position sensor and a Y position sensor, a laser displacement sensor for detecting the distance of the head from... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6589163 | Endoscope shape detecting apparatus wherein form detecting processing is controlled according to connection state of magnetic field generating means An endoscope shape detecting system displays an endoscope image and an insertion form image simultaneously on a display means. A first memory stores an endoscope image and a second memory stores an insertion form image. A control device controls a switchi... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6561651 | Multiple display apparatus A multiple display apparatus for displaying an image with projection of a plurality of images from a plurality of image projecting means 10p, 10q onto a screen is disclosed. The plurality of image projecting means 10p, 10q are disposed such that their ima... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6558006 | Image projection display apparatus using plural projectors and projected image compensation apparatus Highly detailed image data from an input terminal is divided by an input image divider in accordance with projectors. The divided image data are subjected to compensation processing by an image compensator, using compensation data for the respective chara... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6560025 | Translucent screen The present invention is a translucent screen comprising a plurality of spherical lenses arranged in an orthohexagonal lattice structure or a tetragonal lattice structure on a two-dimensional plane, a supporting member disposed at the incident side of the... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6558323 | Ultrasound transducer array By bonding a conductive first matching layer 14 to the acoustic radiation surface side, which is the bottom side, of a belt-shape piezoelectric element on both faces with electrodes provided, and using a dicing machine to form divided grooves 16, an array... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6556785 | Range finder In an apparatus comprising a zoom lens and an electric flash, a range finder that determines, on the basis of an output result obtained by means of one method out of an active AF and a passive AF, whether or not to operate the other method, is utilized.... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6556362 | Lens barrel A body of a lens frame, which is a lens barrel of the present invention, consists of an inner frame for holding a lens, an intermediate frame in which an adjusting screw is screwed, and an outer frame in which an adjusting screw is screwed. The frames are... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6547721 | Endoscope capable of being autoclaved An endoscope capable of being autoclaved in accordance with the present invention includes an insertion unit, an internal endoscope space, and contents. The insertion unit has a soft member, which is made of a soft polymeric material, as at least part of ... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6549958 | Connector for coupling electronic imaging system with USB that selectively switches USB host controller and USB interface with connector An electronic camera 1 is disclosed, which has a USB host detector 51 for checking whether a host computer other than itself is connected to a universal series bus. When it is detected that no host computer other than the camera 1 is connected, a host mod... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6547722 | Endoscope having resistance to high-temperature and high-pressure steam An endoscope having resistance to high-temperature and high-pressure steam including an optical unit having at least one optical member; and optical unit supporting frame for supporting the optical unit so that its position can be adjusted in the directio... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6542696 | Distance measurement apparatus of camera There is disclosed a distance measurement apparatus of a camera which obtains subject distance information (phase difference of a subject luminance signal) of each distance measurement area by a photoelectric conversion element with a plurality of distanc... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6538826 | Lens barrel In a lens barrel, a cam groove has a pair of wall surfaces. One of the wall surfaces, which is located on the side thereof where a rotary frame is extended by a cam follower coming into sliding contact with the wall surface, is formed at a small inclining... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6538687 | Endoscopic imaging system making it possible to detachably attach expansion unit having external expansion facility and add expansion facility for improving capability of system In an endoscopic imagining system, a signal representing an object image produced by a scope and projected by a camera head is processed by a CCU and displayed as an endoscopic image on a TV monitor. The object image is stored as digital image data on a m... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6535194 | Image display using wobbling In an image display comprising a display element having a display surface with a regular array of a plurality of pixels, an image display control means for displaying different images different in successive fields on the display element, and a vibrating ... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6532037 | Camera system wherein recording medium in camera stores information on angle of view of photographing of image necessary for cylindrical conversion A camera system comprises a camera and a panoramic image synthesizing apparatus. The camera includes a photographing device for photographing an object, and a recording medium for storing divisional images of the object photographed by the photographing d... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6526231 | Tremble correction camera A correction camera that makes it possible to confirm the result of correction through a viewfinder without an increase in the size of a taking lens or an increase in costs. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a camera in which a taking ... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6522839 | Distance measuring device and camera having the same A distance measuring sensor applied to the present distance measuring device has three pairs of line sensors and a control circuit arranged in the center thereof. In three pairs of line sensors, the central line sensors have a train of photodetector units... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6520908 | Electronic endoscope An electronic endoscope in accordance with the present invention consists broadly of an operation unit, an elongated insertion unit, and a universal cord. The operation unit has a treatment appliance insertion port and various operation switches and fills... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6519420 | Viewfinder apparatus for camera Disclosed is a viewfinder apparatus for a camera, comprising: a curvilinear image-forming surface in a viewfinder optical system independent of a photographic optical system; a field frame disposed adjacent to the image-forming surface for defining a refe... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6518939 | Image observation apparatus This image observation apparatus comprises: a head-mounted image display unit for displaying images, derived from video signals supplied to itself, on image display units corresponding to observer's left and right eyes respectively; a computer having spec... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6515271 | CMOS image sensor unit with serial transmitting function A CMOS image sensor unit with serial data transmitting function is disclosed. A CMOS sensor unit as a two-dimensional sensor constituted by a plurality of CMOS elements arranged in a regular array in the row and column directions, a clock unit for obtaini... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6513938 | Multi-display device and multi-display system The present invention provides a multi-display device that has a plurality of projectors and constructs one image as a whole. Partial images projected on a screen from the projectors overlap to have the edges thereof superposed on edges of adjoining parti... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6511417 | System for detecting the shape of an endoscope using source coils and sense coils An endoscope shape detection system has a CPU included in a control unit. The CPU performs frequency sampling on digital data to calculate coordinates indicating the spatial positions of source coils incorporated in an insertion unit of an endoscope and o... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6507195 | Electronic apparatus using removable batteries as drive source The present invention is electronic apparatus using removable batteries as a drive source, the apparatus comprising a control section for detecting an internal resistance value of the batteries and using this value to determine how the batteries are consu... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6507711 | Camera for both silver-salt photography and electronic image pickup The camera of this invention has a zoom optical system 21, 23 which forms an object image on silver-salt film 27; an image capture element 15 which captures an electronic image of the above object image; and an image capture optical system 2, 11, 13, 14 w... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6507707 | Distance measuring apparatus and distance measuring method Provided is a distance measuring apparatus that can cope with the problem of wrong distance measuring attributable to the presence of miscellaneous subjects and minimize the possibility of defocused photographing. In this distance measuring apparatus, pas... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6494827 | Endoscope device and operation apparatus An endoscope apparatus capable of preventing occurrence of problems trouble attributable to exhaustion of a battery has an endoscope and a battery-powered light source. The endoscope has a light guide fiber bundle over which illumination light is propagat... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6491449 | Film feeding apparatus for camera A film feeding apparatus for a camera has a spool chamber, a spool, and a motor. The spool is rotated in the spool chamber for winding up a film. The motor is arranged within the outer diameter of the film winding of the spool to expose the outer peripher... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6490490 | Remote operation support system and method According to a remote operation support system, a physician present in a remote place can view endoscopic images displayed in an operating room over a communication line, and change an image area or a viewing direction represented by endoscopic images in ... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6490415 | Camera equipped with flash light emission unit A camera comprises a flash light emission section displaceable between a protruding position in which it protrudes from a camera main body, and a storage position in which it is stored in the camera main body. A pivot is provided nonparallel to a directio... | 12/03/2002 |
