Olympus Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Satoshi Ohara

Motoki Tabata

Takeshi Ito

Yoshinori Tanaka

Masahiro Nishio

Hiroya Tsuji

Kazuyuki Yamae

Hiroyuki Kamee

Kazuaki Tamura

Toru Kuboi

Bakusui Daidoji

Eiji Yamamoto

Akinori Yukimasa

Yoshikazu Kuzuoka

Yasuyuki Shintani

Nobuhiro Ide

Hiroyuki Sasaki

Tomoki Ito

Varutt Kittichungchit

Satoshi Okutani

Kimihiko Nakatsukasa

The present application provides a method of controlling an EV charger which is located at a charging site by a controller. The controller provides a charging signal thereto for controlling the EV charger to operate within a threshold power that is allowable at a management site. The method comprising receiving a consumption power reading used in the management site, and controlling a charging power to the EV charger so that the consumption power is less than the maximum consumption power.

E-fleet aggregator

A control device includes a processor including hardware. The processor acquires a surface image of a surface of an observation target and an inside image of a target portion existing inside the observation target, calculates three-dimensional coordinates of the surface from the surface image, calculates three-dimensional coordinates of the target portion from the inside image, and estimates depth information indicating a depth from the surface to the target portion based on the three-dimensional coordinates of the surface and the three-dimensional coordinates of the target portion.

Control device, image processing method, and storage medium

A processing system includes a processor with hardware. The processor is configured to perform processing of acquiring a detection target image captured by an endoscope apparatus, controlling the endoscope apparatus based on control information, detecting a region of interest included in the detection target image based on the detection target image for calculating estimated probability information representing a probability of the detected region of interest, identifying the control information for improving the estimated probability information related to the region of interest within the detection target image based on the detection target image, and controlling the endoscope apparatus based on the identified control information.

Processing system, image processing method, learning method, and processing device

A light guide unit includes a light guide member and a protection member surrounding the light guide member. The light guide member includes an optical fiber having an outer diameter. The protection member is formed in a network structure by knitting a metal member having a flat cross-sectional shape by bending the metal member in a direction in which the thickness of the metal material is thin, and a gap smaller than the outer diameter is formed along the axial direction.

Light guide unit and endoscope system

An optical connection module for an endoscope includes: an optical fiber having a fiber end surface and configured to guide a part of emitted light emitted from a light source and incident on the fiber end surface; a ferrule having a ferrule end surface with an opening of a through-hole into which the optical fiber is inserted, the ferrule including a scatterer configured to scatter, in an inside of the ferrule, a part of the emitted light incident on the ferrule end surface, the ferrule being configured to emit scattered light generated by scattering from a side surface; and an optical sensor arranged in the periphery of the side surface of the ferrule and configured to receive the scattered light.

Optical connection module for endoscope, endoscope, and endoscope system

An endoscope light source system includes a light source module, an insertion module and a light guide path. The light source system further includes a light connector which is provided on the light guide path and optically connects an auxiliary light guide path to the light guide path, such that auxiliary light is guided to the light guide path from the auxiliary light guide path which guides the auxiliary light; and an irradiation module which emits at least one of light-source light which is guided by the light guide path and the auxiliary light which is guided by the light guide path, to an outside of an endoscope as illumination light, and radiates the illumination light to a to-be-illuminated part.

Endoscope light source system

An illumination device includes a light converter that primary light enters and that is configured to convert at least part of the primary light into secondary light having a second wavelength that differs from a first wavelength of the primary light and to diffuse the secondary light, a first reflector configured to reflect at least part of the diffused secondary light toward the light converter, and a holder holding at least one of the first reflector and the light converter. The first reflector and the light converter are separated from each other so that the primary light transmitted through the first reflector enters the light converter.

Illumination device and endoscope apparatus including the illumination device

An illumination unit includes a light guide and a light converter. Wettability which a distal end side surface of the light guide has for an enclosing member of the light converter is lower than wettability which a distal end face has for the enclosing member.

Illumination unit and endoscope

An illumination unit includes a light guide to guide primary light, a conversion member to convert the primary light into secondary light, and a holder holding an exit end of the light guide and the conversion member. The holder includes an entrance portion that the primary light enters, an exit portion to emit illumination light including the secondary light, and a fixing portion fixing the conversion member between the entrance portion and the exit portion in a direction of a central axis of the primary light. The fixing portion is arranged in a planar region perpendicular to the central axis of the primary light and on an inner peripheral face of the holder. The conversion member is in contact with the fixing portion.

Illumination unit and endoscope system

A light source illumination unit has operation modes including at least a normal electric power mode to operate with first electric power consumption, and a low electric power mode to operate with second electric power consumption lower than the first electric power consumption. A controller selects at least one of the operation modes in accordance with the current usage, and controls the light source illumination unit in accordance with the selected operation mode.

Observation apparatus and endoscope system

A lighting unit includes a single core optical fiber, a light converter, and an exit end. The single core optical fiber includes an incident end and a distal end, and is configured to guide primary light, which is a laser light incident on the incident end, to the distal end. The light converter is formed inside the optical fiber, and is configured to receive the primary light guided by the optical fiber, convert optical properties of at least part of the received primary light and generate secondary light. The exit end is arranged at the distal end of the optical fiber, and is configured to emit the secondary light externally as illumination light.

Lighting unit

A first light source module includes a light source-side connection hole to which a irradiation-side connector of a irradiation module is mechanically detachably attached. The light source-side connection hole is made common to the first irradiation-side connector, which is mounted in the first irradiation module, and the second irradiation-side connector, which is mounted in the second irradiation module, such that the light source-side connection hole is connectable to the first irradiation-side connector and the second irradiation-side connector.

Light source module and endoscope light source system

An illumination apparatus includes a first wavelength converter which absorbs part of the first excitation light and emits first wavelength-converted light, a second wavelength converter which absorbs part of the first excitation light and emits second wavelength-converted light, a reflector including a reflecting surface which is arranged to surround the members, and a holder which holds the members. A first region where light distribution angles of light emitted from the members have a predetermined value or less and a second region where the light distribution angle is less than the predetermined value are present in a region surrounded by the reflecting surface. The holder holds at least one part of the wavelength converter and at least one part of the second wavelength converter at the first region.

Illumination apparatus

A light source illumination unit has operation modes including at least a normal electric power mode to operate with first electric power consumption, and a low electric power mode to operate with second electric power consumption lower than the first electric power consumption. A controller selects at least one of the operation modes in accordance with a use schedule, and controls the light source illumination unit in accordance with the selected operation mode.

An endoscope illumination device includes a light source that outputs primary light, a light guide that includes a first end face from which the primary light is radiated, and guides the primary light, and a light converter that is disposed to face the first end face, includes a second end face which the primary light enters, converts part of the primary light into secondary light. The illumination device also includes a holder that holds the light guide and the light converter so that an incident angle of the secondary light that is radiated from a point of intersection of the second end face and an optical axis of the light guide on the first end face and enters the first end face is equal to or larger than an acceptance angle (NA) of the light guide.

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Satoshi Ohara