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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8102415 | Electronic endoscope system and processor for electronic endoscope An electronic endoscope system includes an electronic endoscope, a processor connected with the electronic endoscope, and a server that performs data communication with the processor via a network. The processor sends, to the server, update request data including an... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102416 | Medical apparatus A medical apparatus includes an endoscopic insertion portion provided with an image pickup unit and a channel; a treatment unit provided with a sensor and a bending portion and passed through a channel, with a distal end portion of the treatment unit being allowed t... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8049777 | Insertion support system for specifying a location of interest as an arbitrary region and also appropriately setting a navigation leading to the specified region According to an insertion support system of the present invention, when a biopsy area is specified at a periphery of the bronchi, the barycenter of the biopsy area is extracted. A circle centering on the barycenter is determined as a search area. The search area is ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8040372 | Encapsulated endoscope An encapsulated endoscope in which exposure amount is controlled at the light source side, and a MOS image sensor is not required to mount a vertical scanning circuit for electronic shutter which is to provide an exposure amount control function. Therefore, since a ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8035684 | Image-signal generating apparatus An image-signal generating apparatus comprises a solid-state image pickup device-equivalent load circuit unit including a load approximately equivalent to a solid-state image pickup device such as a charge coupled device, etc. The image-signal generating apparatus f... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8022979 | Endoscope system The endoscope system of the present invention includes: an endoscope that has an image pickup device that picks up an observation image of a test object; an image display unit that converts image pickup signals that have been sent from the image pickup device into i... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8004560 | Endoscope apparatus An endoscope apparatus includes: a video signal acquisition portion; a video signal processing portion that processes a video signal to generate a display video signal; a measurement processing portion that performs measurement; and a display portion that displays t... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7995093 | Endoscope apparatus In an endoscope apparatus in which a scope is connected to a processor unit in a freely attachable and detachable way, the endoscope apparatus wherein matrix calculation is conducted for RGB signals formed by using CCD, a color space conversion processing circuit is... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7961213 | Image pickup apparatus using an imaging unit including an etalon and calibration method therefor An image pickup apparatus includes an objective optical system, an image pickup element having a surface at an image formed by the objective optical system, and an etalon positioned between the objective optical system and the surface of the image pickup element. Th... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7956887 | Image orienting coupling assembly A coupling assembly for a scope and an image sensor housing is disclosed generally comprising an image orientation unit having first and second coupling sections for coupling the unit to a scope and an image sensor housing, such as a camera head, an optical assembly... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7940296 | Image capturing unit for endoscope An image capturing unit for an electronic endoscope, including a solid-state image capturing element, a metallic housing member, which hermetically encloses a circumference of an insulated base and is arranged to cover a front-end portion of the insulated base, at l... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7936369 | Endoscope An endoscope includes an insertion unit having an inclined portion in a distal surface of the insertion unit; an illuminating unit provided in the inclined portion of the distal surface, and illuminating an inside of a body cavity; an observation window provided in ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7929014 | Insertion support system With a bronchial tube insertion support system according to the present invention, a route setting unit comprises a route starting-point setting function for setting the insertion starting-point of a bronchial tube, a region-of-interest setting function for setting ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7907169 | Electronic endoscope system for fluorescence observation An electronic endoscope system, which is adapted to observe a fluorescence image of autofluorescence emitted from a body cavity wall irradiated with excitation light as well as a normal image of the body cavity wall illuminated with white light on a display device, ... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7907168 | Endoscope system An endoscope system is provided with an endoscope and an image display section that displays the image of a subject captured by an image pick-up element provided in this endoscope. The endoscope is provided with a connector whereby a serial communication cable is de... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7907170 | Electronic endoscope An electronic endoscope has a light source that radiates illuminating light, a movie-image processor, a still-image processor, an image-change processor, and provisional image displayer. The still-image processor that alternately reads odd-line image-pixel signals a... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7893956 | Image pick-up module and method for assembly of an image pick-up module The invention relates to an image pick-up module, in particular for an endoscope, comprising an electronic image sensor having a plurality of contact fingers that are arranged in two rows on opposite sides and each have a length, and a circuit board, to which the co... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7889227 | Intuitive user interface for endoscopic view visualization An intuitive user interface is provided for endoscopic view visualization. The user interface may permit individual or simultaneous navigation through images displayed in an endoscopic view window, a three dimensional overview window, and a multi-planar reformatted ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7889228 | Signal processing device for endoscope An endoscope includes a solid image-pickup device having an image area and an optical black area for performing photoelectric conversion and including a function of varying an amplification ratio, and a first signal clamp circuit clamps the analog output signal that... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7855727 | Endoscopy device supporting multiple input devices The present invention provides a remote-head imaging system with a camera control unit capable of supporting multiple input devices. The camera control unit detects an input device to which it is connected and changes the camera control unit's internal functionality... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7852371 | Autoclavable video camera for an endoscope Sterilizable electronic video cameras for an endoscope are provided. The electronic video camera comprises an enclosure, a lens cell, a lens cell holder, an image sensor, a motorized focusing system, and switch control. The enclosure comprises a housing and a cover,... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7821529 | Image pickup system To provide an image pickup system having CCDs 25 driven at different frequencies respectively which can drive each CCD 25 with a predetermined frequency if a detachable camera head (or electronic endoscope) 28 is used and also can process a sign... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7773110 | Electronic endoscope apparatus An electronic endoscope apparatus comprises: a processor unit; and an electronic endoscope having a solid-state pickup element, the electronic endoscopes being capable of connecting to the processor unit, so as to generate digital picture signals, wherein the proces... | 08/10/2010 |
| RE41467 | Endoscopic imaging system in which still image-specific or motion picture-specific expansion unit can be coupled to digital video output terminal in freely uncoupled manner A camera control unit for processing a signal output from an imaging device incorporated in an endoscope is provided with an analog video signal output terminal through which a video signal is output to a monitor, and a digital video signal output terminal to which ... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7728867 | Electronic endoscope system An electronic endoscope system comprises a video-scope, an imaging device, and a black balance processor. The imaging device, which is provided on the video-scope, is exposed at a normal shutter speed so as to generate an image signal corresponding to an optical ima... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7714885 | Endoscope imaging apparatus An endoscope imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit in which an imaging optical unit that contains at least one optical lens in a rigid member the one end side of which is airtightly sealed is airtightly joined to an imaging element unit that contains at least o... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7573499 | Endoscope apparatus for obtaining properly dimmed observation images A CCD driver circuit adjusts and supplies pulse-type signals to a CCD in order to adjust the sensitivity of the CCD. A metering circuit meters a signal output from the CCD. A sensitivity control circuit controls the sensitivity of the CCD by controlling the sensitiv... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7554572 | Image pickup apparatus for capturing spectral images of an object and observation system including the same An image pickup apparatus has a construction in which a diffraction element is provided in an observation optical system. Zero-order light that is transmitted straight through the diffraction element and one of the +1st-order diffracted light and the −1st-order di... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7551196 | Endoscope apparatus A drive signal from an SSG drives a CCD through a delay circuit and the like. An imaging signal from the CCD is converted to a video signal in a CDS circuit, which is driven by a sample hold signal given through the delay circuit, and is converted to a video signal ... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7542069 | Image processing unit with expandable signal processing capability and endoscopic imaging systems When an endoscopic imaging system is employed in, for example, the department of otorhinology, a color processing expansion substrate, a still image production expansion substrate, and a still image compression/recording substrate are stacked on an expansion connect... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7518632 | Endoscope device An endoscope device including an insertion part including an observation optical system and a measuring optical system, wherein the endoscope device is provided with a characteristic value comparing circuit 85 which compares previous characteristic values and... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7511732 | Assembly and method for securing an endoscope to a digital camera An assembly for securing the eyepiece of an endoscope to a digital camera includes a bar that supports the camera and a block that supports the eyepiece. The camera can be secured to the bar using the camera's tripod mounting hole. The block can normally move in thr... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7492388 | System and method for automatic processing of endoscopic images A system and method for enabling the automatic setting of a mask for displaying live endoscopic images on a monitor device. An imaging node processor selects a pre-determined mask setting based on an automatically detected solid state imager (CCD) type when connecte... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7446796 | Electronic endoscope system An electronic endoscope system includes an image pickup device provided at a distal end of an insertion portion; an image signal processing device; a main light source; an auxiliary light source which emits less amount of light than the light emitted from the main l... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7440005 | Endoscope In an endoscope, scopes that include a scope-side memory and a connector are selectively and detachably connected to a processor that includes a processor-side memory and a connection member. A parameter stored in the scope-side memory can be written to the processo... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7433133 | Optical system The present invention provides an optical system for illuminating and viewing a target in which an illumination element and a receiving means are disposed behind a single optical window, and which obtains data essentially free of backscatter and stray light. The opt... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7420586 | Electronic endoscope apparatus which stores image data on recording medium An electronic endoscope apparatus uses an image storage memory capable of storing image data of one or more examinations and records the image data on a recording medium. In response to a redisplay command, it judges whether the image size for a connected electronic... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7400341 | Electronic endoscope apparatus which superimposes signals on power supply An electronic endoscope apparatus has a single coaxial cable installed between a scope A and a processor unit B. Waveform superimposing circuits superimpose a video signal on power transmitted through the coaxial cable and sequentially superimpose scope-side referen... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7385653 | LED package and backlight assembly for LCD comprising the same An LED package used as a light source in a backlight assembly for an LCD includes a substrate, a plurality of light scattering protrusions on the upper surface of the substrate, LEDs separated from each other by designated intervals and arranged in a line on the sub... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7371210 | Flexible instrument A remote control flexible instrument system, employing a shaft which supports a tool, is described in which the has proximal and distal ends with at least a portion thereof extending through a lumen of the human body so as to locate the shaft at an internal target s... | 05/13/2008 |
