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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120127292 | ENDOSCOPE APPARATUS An endoscope apparatus includes an image pickup section equipped with a color separation section that picks up an image of returning light from a subject illuminated by an illumination section, an emphasis processing section that performs emphasis processing on sharpnes... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120007974 | IMAGE APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF An imaging apparatus generates a cross-sectional image in the longitudinal direction inside a body cavity (e.g., blood vessel) by using an interference signal. The apparatus includes an obtaining unit for obtaining line data, and a judgment unit for judging whether or n... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110292195 | Visual field apparatus for an endoscope A visual field apparatus for an image transmission apparatus includes a channel that connects the proximal end and the distal end of the visual field apparatus for inputting the image transmission apparatus and an optical device on the distal end of the channel that is ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110273549 | ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM An endoscope system of the present invention has an endoscope which acquires a direct-view field of view image and a side-view field of view image of an object to be observed, a light source apparatus which supplies an illuminating light for illuminating the object to b... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110273548 | CAPSULE ENDOSCOPE DEVICE A capsule endoscope device includes an illumination unit that illuminates a living tissue using at least one of a white light illumination unit and a special light illumination unit; an imaging unit that captures an image of the tissue; a transmission unit that transmit... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110261178 | CAMERA SYSTEM WITH AUTONOMOUS MINIATURE CAMERA AND LIGHT SOURCE ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR IMAGE ENHANCEMENT The present Invention relates to a camera system suitable for use in minimally invasive surgery (MIS), among other applications. In at least one embodiment, the camera system includes an autonomous miniature camera, a light source assembly providing features such as ste... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110249105 | In Vivo Autonomous Camera with On-Board Data Storage or Digital Wireless Transmission in Regulatory Approved Band A capsule camera apparatus includes a swallowable housing, a light source within the housing, a camera within the housing for capturing a first digital image and a second digital image of a view of the camera illuminated by the light source, a motion detector that detec... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110242302 | Light Diffusion Apparatus A light diffusing composition that optimizes image clarity from a SSID comprising a translucent matrix further comprising a plurality of hollow micro-particles. The plurality of hollow micro-particles are dispersed throughout the translucent matrix and a fluid is dispos... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110234782 | APPARATUS TO PROVIDE WHITE ILLUMINATING LIGHT An apparatus to provide white illuminating light for medical or boroscopic applications includes a first light source with a light-emitting diode to emit light with a broad spectrum, a second light source to emit monochromatic light, and a coupling device to couple ligh... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110224485 | PICTURE IN PICTURE CLIP APPLIER VIDEO SYSTEM An endoscopic video system for visualizing an internal body cavity is provided. The endoscopic video system may include a first instrument and a second instrument. The first instrument may include a light configured to illuminate the cavity, and a first camera configure... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110193948 | Wireless Camera Coupling With Rotatable Coupling A system for wirelessly powering various devices positioned on an endoscope, including, for example, a light source, various electronics including an imager and/or a memory device. The endoscope is coupled to a camera where the endoscope may be rotated relative to the c... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110187842 | ENDOSCOPE APPARATUS An endoscope apparatus of the present invention includes a light quantity adjusting section that adjusts outgoing light quantity from a light source section that generates light irradiating a subject, a current control section that controls a current to be applied to th... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110190637 | MEDICAL MEASURING SYSTEM, METHOD FOR SURGICAL INTERVENTION AS WELL AS USE OF A MEDICAL MEASURING SYSTEM The invention relates to a medical measuring system, surgical intervention methods, and the use of a medical measuring system. The measuring system comprises two two-dimensional imaging sensors, a light source that is rigidly connected to the camera system in order to p... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110169931 | IN-VIVO IMAGING DEVICE WITH DOUBLE FIELD OF VIEW AND METHOD FOR USE An in-vivo imaging device incorporating a double field of view imaging system, having a wide field of view with moderate magnification, and a narrow field of view with substantially higher magnification, axially superimposed thereon. A single imaging array is used for b... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110109734 | ELECTRONIC ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM, PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR ELECTRONIC ENDOSCOPE, AND SIGNAL SEPARATION METHOD Image capture is performed while broadband and narrow band light are simultaneously emitted to tissue site. B pixel sensing the narrow band light outputs a summed image signal having a brightness value of a B component of the broadband light and a brightness value of th... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110074941 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND ENDOSCOPE An image pickup device includes: an image pickup element; a spacer surrounding a light receiving surface of the image pickup element; a cover glass attached to the spacer, the cover glass being disposed opposing to the light receiving surface; and an insulative resin co... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110074942 | ELECTRONIC ENDOSCOPE An electronic endoscope includes an illumination unit, an imaging unit and an image generating unit. The illumination unit switches among plural light beams having different spectra so as to illuminate a subject. The light beams include white light and excitation light ... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110069161 | ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM Provided is an endoscope system including an endoscope which includes an illumination optical system having a fluorescent substance and an imaging optical system having an imaging element; and a control device which is connected to the endoscope. The control device incl... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110069164 | ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM An endoscope system includes an endoscope and a control device. The endoscope includes an illumination optical system with a fluorescent body formed in an optical path and an imaging optical system with an imaging element outputting an imaging signal of an optical image... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110069162 | ENDOSCOPE APPARATUS An endoscope apparatus includes: an endoscope which includes an imaging optical system and an illumination optical system; and a control unit which includes light source units and connected to the endoscope and supplying at least excitation light to the illumination opt... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110069163 | ENDOSCOPE APPARATUS AND ILLUMINATION CONTROL METHOD OF ENDOSCOPE APPARATUS Provided are a plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements having different central light emission wavelengths, a multiplexer means for multiplexing lights, and a central wavelength converting means for controlling a light emission amount ratio of the plurality o... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110037841 | OPTICAL OBSERVATION SYSTEM An optical observation system is provided that includes a vibrator vibrating an emission end of an optical fiber such that light emitted from the emission end is scanned to depict a scanning trajectory having a distribution, within a predetermined scanning range on a su... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110032347 | ENDOSCOPY SYSTEM WITH MOTION SENSORS An endoscopy system (1) comprises an endoscope (2) with a camera (3) at its tip. The endoscope extends through an endoscope guide (4) for guiding movement of the endoscope and for measurement of its movement as it enters the body. The guide (... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110018988 | Endoscopic Imaging System An endoscopic imaging system includes an endoscope, a light source assembly coupled to the endoscope that transmits light to the endoscope for illuminating a region of interest, an imaging unit coupled to the light source assembly that receives light through the endosco... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110001811 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM An illumination device with small light intensity loss, prevents deterioration of directivity, includes a white light source; a first light guiding unit disposed on the white light source optical axis, guiding white light from its source in a radially outward direction ... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100309299 | IMAGE OBTAINMENT METHOD AND ENDOSCOPIC APPARATUS An input of one of a plurality of combinations of wavelength components that have been set in advance is received. Further, a spectral estimation image signal obtainment mode and a narrow-band image signal obtainment mode are switched therebetween based on the combinati... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100283842 | IMAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE IN MONITORING A FIELD OF REGARD A method and system are presented for monitoring a field of regard. At least a part of a field of regard is imaged by concurrently collecting a plurality of light components propagating from a plurality of zones, respectively, located within the field of regard, a combi... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100265321 | IMAGING DEVICE An imaging device includes first light sources that have first frequency characteristics; second light sources that have second frequency characteristics different from the first frequency characteristics and that are arranged in positions different from those of the fi... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100245550 | FLUOROSCOPY APPARATUS AND FLUOROSCOPY METHOD Unwanted information contained in a reference image is reduced, thus acquiring a fluorescence image having quantitative intensity information, regardless of the angle and distance of excitation light. The invention provides a fluoroscopy apparatus including an illuminat... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100245552 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGING DEVICE, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD A reflected light image and a fluorescent light image of an observed region are acquired with an imaging system. A gradation level of the reflected light image is set on the basis of a feature value of the acquired reflected light image. The focus of the imaging system ... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100245551 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD A reflected light image of an observed region and a fluorescent light image of the observed region based on fluorescent light that is generated from the observed region are acquired. The variation component of the acquired latest reflected light image is detected on the... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100225754 | MEDICAL INSTRUMENT A medical instrument according to the present invention is a medical instrument used by being introduced into the body and fixed therein, which includes a fixing section fixed to a body wall in the body, an image pickup section that picks up an image of an object to be ... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100220179 | Systems and Methods for Capsule Camera Control Systems and methods are provided for environment change sensing corresponding to the capsule camera entering the colon from the small intestine. In the environment change sensing mode, the capsule camera is operated in a very low power mode by configuring the image sens... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100214399 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS There is provided an image capturing apparatus including a light splitting section that splits light from an object into first light and second light in such a manner that (i) a split ratio of light in a specified wavelength range is different from a split ratio of ligh... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100201796 | Contact measuring endoscope apparatus A contact measuring endoscope apparatus includes a case located at a front end of the apparatus to define a accommodating space; a contact probe connected to and projected from an end of the case by a fixed distance; a light emitting element for emitting light; an image... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100201797 | ENDOSCOPE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING ENDOSCOPE DEVICE An endoscope device includes: a light source including an LED for emitting an R light, an LED for emitting a G light and an LED for emitting a B light, and a solid-state image pick-up element having a plurality of pixel parts including a photoelectric conversion part th... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100194871 | FLUORESCENCE ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM AND FLUORESCENCE IMAGING METHOD Before a fluorescent labeling agent is administered on an observation area, the observation area is irradiated with an excitation light for fluorescence quenching. An image taking unit captures two fluorescence images at a predetermined time interval during the irradiat... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100188492 | Method And Device For Incremental Wavelength Variation To Analyze Tissue A method of imaging a target using a miniaturized imaging device is disclosed comprising providing a miniaturized imaging device having a stationary lens system and an imaging array, wherein the distance from a distal end of the stationary lens system to the imaging arr... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100171821 | Method And Device For Wavelength Shifted Imaging A micro-camera catheter device is disclosed comprising at least one light source disposed on a distal end of a catheter. The light source is capable of propagating a predetermined wavelength of light with a wavelength between approximately 1000 nanometers and approximat... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100157039 | ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM WITH SCANNING FUNCTION An endoscope system has a light source configured to emit first illumination light and second illumination light; an optical fiber configured to transmit the first and second illumination light to the tip portion of a scope; and scanner configured to spirally scan a tar... | 06/24/2010 |
