Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Katsuya Suzuki

Eiichi Fuse

Seiji Yamaguchi

Takashi Fukaya

Masakazu Nakamura

Hideyuki Adachi

Kuniaki Kami

Michio Sato

Yasundo Tanaka

Kiyotaka Matsuno

Yoshihiro Kosaka

Koichi Umeyama

Masaaki Hayashi

Kazunari Nakamura

Yasuhiro Ueda

Sakae Takehana

Tsutomu Yamamoto

Yoshinao Oaki

Mamoru Kaneko

Minoru Okada

Nobuyuki Sakamoto

Naruto Shinkai

Nobuhiko Washizuka

Hiroaki Noda

Masahiro Kumakura

Ichiro Takahashi

Masaya Yoshihara

Masahiko Iida

Satoshi Tatami

Hideki Okuwa

Tatsuya Ito

A fluorescent endoscope apparatus having: an endoscope that irradiates a subject portion to be observed with light transmitted through a light transmission device to obtain an object image of the subject portion to be observed; a normal observation light generating device for emitting normal light for performing normal light endoscope observation; a fluorescent observation light generating device for emitting excitation light for performing fluorescent light observation; an introduced-light switching device for selectively introducing, to the light transmission device of the endoscope, normal light emitted by the normal observation light generating device or excitation light emitted by the fluorescent observation light generating device; and an image sensing device for capturing a normal light image of the subject portion to be observed that can be obtained by irradiating the subject portion to be observed with normal light or excitation light or a fluorescent image that can be obtained due to irradiation with excitation light, the image sensing device being included or connected to the endoscope.

Fluorescent endoscope apparatus

An endoscope system includes a movement detector for detecting an operator's movement, a signal processor for processing a signal the detector detects, and a control for controlling drive which drives a medical device according to an output signal of the signal processor. The endoscope system bends a bending section of an endoscope serving as a medical device according to the operator's movement, and thus orients the observation field of view to a direction the operator intends or controls the movement of a treatment adapter serving as a medical device. The endoscope system includes a superimposing means for superimposing an image associated with the operator's movement onto an image acquired by an imaging device associated with the endoscope system.

Endoscope system with automatic control according to movement of an

A medical system has a detecting device for detecting three dimensional image information about a living body, a signal processing circuit for processing the image signal transmitted from the detecting device, and an object information reproduction device. The object information reproduction device comprises a movable displacement element which is touched by the operator and acts according to the output from the signal processing circuit so as to cause the operator to tactually sense information about the object. Thus, the operator is able to recognize the degree of unevenness in a tactile manner by touching the displacement element. Other embodiments include means for sensing and reproducing hardness and temperature of the object.

Medical system having object information reproduction means for palpation

A medical system according to the present invention comprises a medical apparatus including an operation unit manipulated by a surgeon and a treatment section formed away from the operation unit for treating a subject, a detector or a pressure sensor for detecting a state of contact between the subject and the treatment section, and a reproduction mechanism for amplifying a small contact pressure according to the output of the detector and thus reproduce the state of contact so that the surgeon can perceive the state of contact.

Medical system for reproducing a state of contact of the treatment

Disclosed is an industrial endoscope system having a rotary treatment member, attached to a hard top part at a distal end of an insertion unit, for effecting a treatment such as grinding by rotating this treatment member itself. The system includes a moving means for making a distal end of the treatment member movable in the axial directions of the insertion unit. This easily leads the treatment member to a target position via a lead-in port of an engine; or the treatment member can be set in a position suitable for the treatment.

Industrial endoscope system having a rotary treatment member

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Hachioji, Japan

Katsuya Suzuki