Olympus Corporation

Olympus Medical Systems Corporation

Misa Tsuruta

Satoshi Takekoshi

Yuichi Takeuchi

Toshiaki Watanabe

Takeo Suzuki

Hiroki Uchiyama

An endoscope apparatus includes a spectroscopic section disposed on an optical axis of return light from an object irradiated with visible light, first excitation light and second excitation light including a longer wavelength than a wavelength of the first excitation light and configured to separate and emit the light of a second wavelength band other than light of a first wavelength band, a first excitation light cut filter configured to block a wavelength band of one of the first excitation light and the second excitation light included in the return light, and a second excitation light cut filter configured to block a wavelength band of another excitation light of the first excitation light and the second excitation light and a wavelength band of the visible light.

Endoscope apparatus

An endoscope system includes a convex-portion specifying section that detects a convex portion in a picked-up image of a subject picked up by an image pickup section, and a convex-portion-size calculating section that detects a convex portion in a predetermined size range on the basis of information concerning the convex portion. An illumination section includes a plurality of illumination-light emitting sections that illuminate the subject with lights in bands different from one another from directions different from one another. The plurality of illumination-light emitting sections are provided on a distal end side inner circumferential surface of a cylindrical cap attached to the distal end of an insertion section of an endoscope to specify an image pickup range of the image pickup section.

Endoscope system having processor for calculating a size of a convex portion

An endoscope apparatus includes: a light source apparatus that emits light in a wavelength band including a first wavelength band for exciting a first fluorescent substance and a second wavelength band; an image pickup section that picks up an image of first fluorescence emitted when the first fluorescent substance is excited and an image of second fluorescence emitted when a second fluorescent substance provided on a treatment instrument is excited, to generate a fluorescence image; an information storing section that stores shape information including information on a shape of the second fluorescent substance; and an operation section that performs an operation to estimate an actual size of a region in which the first fluorescence is generated, based on a scaling factor calculated based on the shape information and a size of a draw region of the second fluorescence, and a size of a draw region of the first fluorescence.

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Hachioji, Japan

Misa Tsuruta