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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8167796 | Endoscope light source unit An endoscope light source unit for making illumination light incident on a light guide, includes a rotary aperture plate, aperture openings of different opening ratios and an auxiliary-light aperture opening of a maximum opening ratio formed in the rotary aperture p... | 05/01/2012 |
| 7798959 | Endoscope light source unit with light quantity control An endoscope light source unit for making illumination light incident on an incident end face of a light guide connected thereto, includes an aperture device having aperture openings of different opening ratios, for selectively positioning one of the aperture openin... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7662095 | Endoscope provided with a lighting system and a combined image transmission The invention relates to an endoscope used for lighting and visualizing the fields of an object in cavities. The inventive endoscope comprises a lighting unit and an image transmitting system provided with an optical lens on the distal side thereof and with an optic... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7347817 | Polarized in vivo imaging device, system and method An autonomous in vivo sensing device may include a polarizing filter to polarize light emitted by an illumination unit, and to block light specularly reflected from a turbid media from reaching an imager of such device. An autonomous in vivo sensing device with mono... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7341557 | Compact fluorescence endoscopy video system A fluorescence endoscopy video system includes a multimode light source that produces light for color and fluorescence imaging modes. Light from the light source is transmitted through an endoscope to the tissue under observation. The system also includes a compact ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7321791 | Spectral imaging of deep tissue Apparatus and methods are provided for the imaging of structures in deep tissue within biological specimens, using spectral imaging to provide highly sensitive detection. By acquiring data that provides a plurality of images of the sample with different spectral wei... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7316700 | Self optimizing lancing device with adaptation means to temporal variations in cutaneous properties A lancing device, an embodiment of which controls the advancement and retraction of a lancet by monitoring the position of the lancet in conjunction with a lancet controller which incorporates a feedback loop for modulating the lancet driver to follow a predetermine... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7253894 | Image detection apparatus for fluorescence and reflectance imaging and spectroscopy and for contemporaneous measurements of electromagnetic radiation with multiple measuring devices Optical systems that provide for simultaneous images and spectra from an object, such as a tissue sample, an industrial object such as a computer chip, or any other object that can be viewed with an optical system such as a microscope, endoscope, telescope or camera... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7247135 | Electronic endoscope apparatus including brightness adjuster An electronic endoscope apparatus has a light source, a luminance calculator, a controller, and a brightness adjuster. The light source illuminates an object. The luminance calculator calculates a luminance level indicating a brightness of an object image on the bas... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7244264 | Dual blade lancing test strip An integrated lancing test strip includes a pair of blade members that each have a lancing tip that are configured to lance skin. A pair of spacer members connect the blade members together such that the blade members define an internal capillary. A test strip is po... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7239782 | Chemical imaging fiberscope A fiberscope device is disclosed which is suitable for video imaging, laser Raman spectroscopy and laser Raman spectroscopic (i.e. chemical) imaging. The fiberscope design minimizes fiber background interference arising from the laser delivery fiber optic and the co... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7235047 | Methods and apparatus for imaging using a light guide bundle and spatial light modulator Endoscopes and other viewing devices that control the light that contacts a sample and/or that is detected emanating from a sample. The viewing devices are particularly well suited for in vivo imaging, although other uses are also included. The viewing devices, and ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7235045 | Fluorescence imaging endoscope An endoscope having an optical guide that is optically coupled to a first broadband light source and a second laser light source that emits light at a wavelength in a range of 350 nm to 420 nm. The endoscope has an image sensor at a distal end and collects a reflect... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7232410 | Adjusting method for endoscope systems An adjusting method for endoscope systems comprises a first adjusting step, a second light adjusting step and a storing step. The first adjusting step compares video signals, which are produced from illumination light rays that are reflected from an object and whose... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7226448 | Cardiac treatment devices and methods Devices and methods provide for ablation of cardiac tissue for treating cardiac arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation. Although the devices and methods are often be used to ablate epicardial tissue in the vicinity of at least one pulmonary vein, various embodiment... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7226412 | Endoscope system using normal light and fluorescence An endoscope system in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes an endoscope with a monochrome image pickup device for capturing reflected light and fluorescence from the body cavity, an excitation light cut filter which is installed in front ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7201767 | Device for ultraviolet radiation treatment of body tissues The device for ultraviolet radiation treatment of body tissues includes a UV light source, a halogen light source and a viewing mechanism all connected to a trifurcation joint by fiber optic cables. All three fiber optics cables are bundled together and exit the tri... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7190452 | Imaging systems for fluorescence and reflectance imaging and spectroscopy and for contemporaneous measurements of electromagnetic radiation with multiple measuring devices Optical systems that provide for simultaneous images and spectra from an object, such as a tissue sample, an industrial object such as a computer chip, or any other object that can be viewed with an optical system such as a microscope, endoscope, telescope or camera... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7172553 | Endoscope system using normal light and fluorescence In the light source unit 3A, a switching filter section 14, which can switch the RGB filter for normal-light observation and a filter for fluorescent observation on the optical path, is installed in front of the lamp 12, where if the fluorescent... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7150710 | Therapeutic methods using electromagnetic radiation This invention provides methods for treating a variety of disorders using electromagnetic radiation directed at excitable tissues, including nerves, muscles and blood vessels. By controlling the wavelength, the wavelength bandpass, pulse duration, intensity, pulse f... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7133079 | Circuit comprising a combined signal and environmental light sensor In indication and image reproduction apparatus, the ambient brightness must be taken into account for an optimum reproduction quality. This requires an optical sensor, which is associated with additional technical outlay. The invention relates to a circuit which all... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7115841 | Imaging methods for fluorescence and reflectance imaging and spectroscopy and for contemporaneous measurements of electromagnetic radiation with multiple measuring devices Optical systems that provide for simultaneous images and spectra from an object, such as a tissue sample, an industrial object such as a computer chip, or any other object that can be viewed with an optical system such as a microscope, endoscope, telescope or camera... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7087014 | Endoscope system having an auxiliary lighting device An endoscope system includes an endoscope having an insertion tube; a main light source; an auxiliary light source; and a fiber-optic light guide provided in the insertion tube, the fiber-optic light guide being provided with an incident end face which selectively f... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7081336 | Dual resonance energy transfer nucleic acid probes Dual nucleic acid probes with resonance energy transfer moieties are provided. In particular, fluorescent or luminescent resonance energy transfer moieties are provided on hairpin stem-loop molecular beacon probes that hybridize sufficiently near each other on a sub... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7077804 | Light source apparatus for endoscope A light source apparatus for an endoscope including a main light source; a light guide member whose incident end face is opposed to the main light source and which guides light incident thereon to an emission end face thereof; an auxiliary light source which is acti... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7070560 | Illumination control system and method for endoscopes A light source device enables manual and automatic light regulation performed on illumination light that is irradiated to an object. A set value of a light regulation level for light emanating from a light source which is determined for use of an endoscope 11... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7058441 | Optical measuring system for diagnosing ear conditions A system for detecting and diagnosing ear related conditions. The system includes a device capable of obtaining a spectrum of reflected light from an ear of a subject and a processing unit in connection with the device, which is capable of translating the obtained s... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7048686 | Endoscope system including a communications function An endoscope system has an electronic endoscope, a signal processing section and a data transmitting and receiving section. The electronic endoscope has an image pickup element at a distal end portion of an insert section thereof to be inserted in a body. The other ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7043291 | Fluorescence image display apparatus A fluorescence image display apparatus is provided; wherein, when a pseudo color image representing the tissue state of a target subject is obtained, based on a fluorescence image emitted from the target subject upon the irradiation thereof by an excitation light, t... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7037259 | Light source device and image capturing device A light source device for use in an image capturing device such as an endoscope capable of reducing size and cost, and preventing heat generation at an illuminated position. An illumination unit of the endoscope includes LED light sources for emitting ultraviolet li... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6974240 | Illumination control system and illumination control method for endoscope systems An illumination control system comprises a rotation detecting section, an abnormality determination section, and a filter removing section. The rotation detecting section detects the rotational driving of a filter which is located on a path of illumination light emi... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6962565 | Excitation light illuminating probe, video endoscope system, and video endoscope for fluorescence observation A video endoscope system for fluorescence observation includes a video endoscope, an illumination probe, a power supply unit, a signal processing unit and a display. The video endoscope has a part configured to be inserted in a body cavity, an objective optical syst... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6960165 | Endoscope with a single image pick-up element for fluorescent and normal-light images In a light source unit, a switchable filter section in which an RGB filter and a fluorescence observation filter can be shifted into the light path is disposed in front of a lamp. When fluorescence image mode is selected, excitation light in a part of the wavelength... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6932762 | Endoscope having red component cut filter An endoscope includes a red component cut optical filter having a characteristic that a spectral transmittance becomes half at 630 nm and zero at 670 nm, for example between a light source and an infrared cut filter, to remove a long wavelength component mainly in a... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6932763 | Endoscope light source apparatus for shielding central region of ray bundle earlier An aperture mechanism of this apparatus is provided with an aperture blade which has, for example, an outline converging toward the front end with a shielding width of the front-end blade section smaller than the diameter of a ray bundle transmitted into a light gui... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6878109 | Light source device for an endoscope using a DMD An endoscope system comprising an endoscope which incorporates an imaging element together with an element for determining the type of the imaging element; a light source apparatus, which includes a DMD in a light path from a light source lamp, for determining incid... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6869397 | Non-tethered macro-to-micro endoscope An endoscope to perform non-tethered macroscopy and microscopy at the same time is provided. An electromagnetic source is used to deliver electromagnetic energy through a first optical pathway to a tissue inside a body. An image detector is used to detect the reflec... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6821245 | Compact fluorescence endoscopy video system A fluorescence endoscopy video system includes a multimode light source that produces light for color and fluorescence imaging modes. Light from the light source is transmitted through an endoscope to the tissue under observation. The system also includes a compact ... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6817977 | Lighting system for an endoscope A lighting system for an endoscope includes a lamp positioned so that an optical axis thereof is oriented horizontally; a light guide having an incident end upon which the illuminating light from the lamp is incident; a diaphragm plate rotated about a pivot so as to... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6800057 | Image obtaining apparatus An accurate determination of the tissue state of a diseased portion is performed by use of an image obtaining apparatus employing a charge multiplying type solid state image obtaining element. A target subject is irradiated with an illuminating light that contains a... | 10/05/2004 |
