Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Fujifilm Corporation

Azuchi Endo

Satoshi Ozawa

Akihiko Erikawa

Takayuki Iida

Yasunori Ohta

Hiroshi Yamaguchi

Kazuo Shiota

Hiroyuki Hasegawa

Yasufumi Takahashi

Kiichiro Sakamoto

Taizo Akimoto

Kazuhiro Nishida

Kiyoshi Yamaguchi

Masahiko Miyata

Akira Mizuyoshi

Takashi Kido

Kiyohiro Maeda

Mikio Nishiyama

Masaki Takamatsu

Masahiro Hideshima

A drive device includes a piezoelectric element, a drive shaft that receives vibration of the piezoelectric element and vibrates along an optical axis direction of a first imaging optical system, an engagement member that is frictionally engaged with the drive shaft and is connected to the first imaging optical system, and a lens controller that controls vibration of the piezoelectric element, in which the first imaging optical system is provided to be movable in a range including at least a first position and a second position, and the lens controller performs control of moving the first imaging optical system from the first position to the second position in a case in which a signal for instructing a power of the drive device to be turned off is received.

Drive device and imaging apparatus

An endoscopeincludes a first light sourcethat emits white illumination light, a second light sourcethat emits narrow-band light and an imaging section that has an imaging devicehaving plural detection pixels and images a region to be observed. The imaging section is caused to output a captured image signal including both a return light component of the white illumination light from the region to be observed by and a return light component of the narrow-band light the white illumination light. From the captured image signal, the return light component of the narrow-band light is selectively extracted, and a brightness level of the extracted return light component of the narrow-band light is changed by changing a light amount of light emitted from the second light source

Method of controlling endoscope and 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 for exciting the subject to produce fluorescence. The imaging unit includes a solid-state imaging device, and an objective optical system. The objective optical system guides, to the solid-state imaging device, light returning from the subject which the illumination unit illuminates. The image generating unit generates image data based on image signals output from the imaging unit. The solid-state imaging device further includes a sensitivity adjusting unit that only lowers sensitivity, to the excitation light, of pixels which are sensitive to the fluorescence among a plurality of pixels of the solid-state imaging device. The light guided by the objective optical system is incident directly onto the solid-state imaging device.

Electronic endoscope

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. The control device includes a light source unit which supplies an excitation light to the illumination optical system so as to emit light from the fluorescent body and an image processing section which corrects the imaging signal output from the imaging element. The image processing section includes: an illumination light spectrum calculating unit, a chromaticity correction table creating unit and an image correcting unit.

Endoscope system

Provided is an image capturing apparatus for generating a multi-band image for examining a disease condition which has little amount of information. The image capturing apparatus includes: a variable spectroscopic element capable of varying a wavelength of light to be transmitted; a wavelength band table recording therein wavelength bands corresponded with disease conditions; an observation target identifying section that identifies a disease condition to be observed; a variable spectroscopic element control section that controls the variable spectroscopic element to sequentially transmit light rays of a plurality of wavelengths within a range of a wavelength band recorded in the wavelength band table in correspondence with the disease condition identified by the observation target identifying section; and an image capturing section that sequentially captures images by means of the light rays of a plurality of wavelengths transmitted through the variable spectroscopic element.

Image capturing apparatus, image capturing method, and computer readable medium

An electronic endoscope system includes an electronic endoscope having a CMOS image sensor on the tip of an insertion section, a light source device for illuminating the interior of a patient's body, and a processing device for reading out image signals from the CMOS image sensor. The electronic endoscope system can operate with a standard imaging mode and a special imaging mode. When the time taken to read out the image signals from all the pixels in the standard mode is defined as T, the light source device in the special imaging mode emits illumination light in every first half period T/2 while switching a wavelength of the illumination light between two different wavebands. In every second half period T/2, the processing device reads out the image signals from the half of the pixels.

Electronic endoscope system

An image reader includes a photoelectric converter which reads light carrying image information, a plurality of amplifiers which amplify the photoelectrically converted image information by different amplification factors, a plurality of A/D converters which respectively convert the plurality of pieces of image information amplified by the amplifiers into digital signals, and a selector which selectively outputs the outputs of the respective A/D converters according to displacement of the image information.

Selectively outputting image information of differing amplifications

Image information for one screen is read while moving an image taking device so that a sampling position is shifted to make a round and to return the original position in n frames. The sampling position is shifted after stored signal charges of each of the n frames are transmitted to a transmission section and signal charges stored in a photoelectric conversion section are discharged at latest by the end of sampling position shift, thereby discharging outside signal charges stored during sampling position shift.

Image reading during movement of an imaging device

An apparatus that reads the image on transmission-type originals includes a light source, a photoelectric transducer means for reading image information a necessary number of times in accordance with the image density, a memory for storing information read by the transducer, and an input device for entering the image information into the memory in accordance with image density information.

Image reading apparatus which varies a number of reading operations

An image reader that reads the image on transmission-type originals such as negative reversal films for use on digital photoprinters, for example, and which has an inexpensive and simple construction and yet is capable of efficient and rapid image reading operations. The time of reading the light passing through a transmission-type original by a main scanning CCD assembly is varied in accordance with the image data on the original. Alternatively, a prescanning unit and main scanning unit are provided as independent entities that use a prescanning CCD assembly and a main scanning CCD assembly, respectively.

Image reading apparatus which varies reading time according to image

A photographic printer having a video image printing system for making prints of video images displayed on a CRT, and a photographic image printing system using the CRT as an illumination light source for a film from which a photographic image is printed, including a control circuit for defocusing an electron beam by which a fluorescent screen of the CRT is stimulated to emit illumination light without rasters when the CRT is used in the film image printing system. The control circuit can either change an angle of deflection of the electron beam or stop deflection of the electron beam.

Photographic printer

A CRT printing method and apparatus for making a print of an image with letters in order to provide, for example, a picture card with a season's complimentary phrase or message comprising a CRT display device for displaying an image on its screen, a letter bearing member with a complimentary phrase provided thereon which is disposed on or close to the CRT screen, and an exposure system for exposing a photographic paper to the CRT image and the letter bearing member. The letter bearing member is disposed, through a diffusing plate, on desired area of the CRT screen. Part of the CRT image is erased and the corresponding area of the screen is caused to emit light for illuminating the letter bearing member.

CRT printing method and apparatus for making a print of an image with

A hard copy of a picture is produced from a single field of video signals representing the picture. A single field of luminance and line-sequential color difference video signals representing a picture is entered to a signal converter to be converted into a frame of video signals, which is in turn stored in a storage. The signal converter produces interpolated luminance signals and interpolated color difference signals. The video signals are then read out of the storage in an interlace raster scanning fashion. A picture display visibly displays the picture represented by the read out video signals. The video signals are also read out of the storage in a sequential scanning fashion. A picture printer receives the sequentially read out video signals and records on a recording medium the picture represented by the video signals.

Apparatus for producing a hard copy of a color picture from either a

An apparatus for producing a hard copy of a color picture includes a cathode ray tube for displaying a picture component on a screen thereof upon reception of a video signal which is associated with a separated-color component, and a recorder which includes a plurality of separated-color filters to expose a recording medium to the picture component being displayed on the screen through any of the filters. The recorder exposes the recording medium to picture components of individual separated colors by additive color photography to record a color picture. A photodetector is provided for measuring brightness of the screen through any one of the filters while a controller controls the cathode ray tube and the photodetector. The controller, before recording the picture components of the individual separated-color components on the recording medium, adjust at least one of luminance and contrast of the tube and an exposure time of the recording medium, based on the brightness measured.

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