Olympus Corporation

Olympus Medical Systems Corporation

Yuji Kutsuma

Susumu Hashimoto

Tomoki Iwasaki

Tatsuhiko Suzuki

Toshihiro Hamada

Hironori Nakagawa

Soichiro Koshika

Kazuma Kaneko

Susumu Kawata

Keisuke Tsutsui

Takahiro Tanabe

Tadao Eto

An endoscope system includes a light source that irradiates a predetermined first and second narrowband light; an imaging sensor that captures an image of return light of the first narrowband light and the second narrowband light from the subject, and generates an image signal of the image; and a processor being configured to identify a first color of a first portion and a second color of a second portion based on a difference of an optical density with respect to hemoglobin in the image signal in every frame of the image, the first portion corresponding to a bleeding area, and the second portion corresponding to an area other than the bleeding area within the subject, and correct the first color and the second color based on the identified first and second color while maintaining a color difference between the identified first and second color in a predetermined range.

Endoscope system

An endoscope apparatus includes a color image pickup device, a light source device configured to simultaneously illuminate the subject with light in a first wavelength band having a spectral characteristic of a narrow band having a peak in a range from a wavelength of 585 nm to a wavelength of 615 nm and light in a second wavelength band having a spectral characteristic for making, among a red signal, a green signal, and a blue signal, a pixel value of the red signal smallest, and a processor configured to assign either one of the red signal generated by return light from the subject illuminated with the light in the first wavelength band and the green signal or the blue signal generated by return light from the subject illuminated with the light in the second wavelength band to each of output channels corresponding to the respective colors in a display device.

Endoscope system, method of generating endoscope image, and processor

A processing device to which an endoscope inserted into a subject is connected includes: an image processor configured to execute image processing based on a setting value set in advance relating to the image processing on image data; a recorder configured to record setting information as setting values for respective multiple sets of image processing, the setting values being determined according to a combination of: at least one of identification information and observation light information; and each of multiple modes; an acquisition unit configured to acquire: at least one of the identification information and the observation light information; and information about one of the multiple modes selected by a user; and a setting unit configured to set the setting information specified based on a result of acquisition as the setting values used in the image processing.

Processing device, setting method and computer-readable recording medium

An image processing device includes a processor including hardware. The processor is configured to: acquire an image data including an annular side observation image and a direct view observation image forming a circle formed from a center of the side observation image to an inner circle; in a case of normal observation in which electronic zooming processing is not performed, generate a first display image including a boundary portion between the side observation image and the direct view observation image in a display area; and in a case of magnified observation in which the electronic zooming processing is performed, generate a second display image in which a boundary portion between the side observation image and the direct view observation image is shielded by a mask.

Image processing device, endoscope system, image processing method, and computer-readable recording medium

A first signal processing apparatus includes: an image processing unit configured to at least execute a composition process of generating composed image information in which first image information or second image information and textual information are superimposed; and a control unit configured to control the process of the image processing unit in accordance with communication with a second signal processing apparatus. The control unit selects either one of the first image information and the second image information, and when the second image information is selected, the control unit outputs a first command for instructing the second signal processing apparatus not to superimpose the second image information and the textual information related to the second image information, and causes the image processing unit to generate composite image information in which the second image information and the textual information related to the second image information are superimposed.

Signal processing apparatus and endoscope system with composite image generation

A video processor includes an identification section configured to identify a kind of an endoscope, an electronic zoom processing section configured to magnify by a first magnification factor and a second magnification factor larger than the first magnification factor, and a mode setting section configured to set to a first mode of enabling selection of a first processing pattern, and a second processing pattern, when connection of a super-wide angle endoscope is identified, and set to a second mode enabling selection of the second processing pattern when connection of a single visual field endoscope is identified, wherein when the mode setting section performs electronic zoom processing by the second magnification factor in the first mode, the electronic zoom processing section cuts out an image so that only the optical image of the forward visual field is displayed and magnifies the image with the second magnification factor.

Video processor

A first signal processing apparatus, to which a first endoscope apparatus including a first image sensor is detachably attached and communicably connected with a second signal processing apparatus to which a second endoscope apparatus including a second image sensor is attached, the first signal processing apparatus being configured to process a first imaging signal generated by the first image sensor or a second image signal generated by the second image sensor, includes a control unit configured to control a process inside the first signal processing apparatus in accordance with communication with the second signal processing apparatus. The control unit processes the first imaging signal when a first command is received, and when a second command is received, the control unit controls the process inside the first signal processing apparatus to make the process of the second imaging signal to correspond to the second command.

Signal processing apparatus and endoscope system

An image processing apparatus processes a first image signal including pixel signals, the first image signal having a picture portion in which a subject is shown and having a blank portion surrounding the picture portion. The apparatus includes: a blank detection unit configured to set similar frames different in size from one another within a display area of a screen representing the first image signal, in a stepwise manner from an outer periphery, and to detect the blank portion based on whether or not a part of the pixel signals belonging to a region outside each of the similar frames has the uniform color or brightness; a region-of-interest setting unit configured to set an initial region-of-interest corresponding to the picture portion in the first image signal, based on the blank portion; and a region-of-interest image generation unit configured to generate a region-of-interest image signal representing the initial region-of-interest.

Image processing apparatus for generating combined image signal of region-of-interest image signal and second image signal, the region-of-interest image signal being generated based on blank portion and initial region-of-interest of first image signal

An image playback apparatus includes: a moving image processing unit configured to generate playback-oriented moving image data from moving image data as a playback target, among moving image data recorded on a recording device; a display controller configured to play back, on a display device, the playback-oriented moving image data generated by the moving image processing unit; a release instruction input unit configured to receive input of a release signal during playback of the playback-oriented moving image data; a still image generation unit configured to generate, from the moving image data, still image data that correspond to a playback image being played back on the display device at a time of input of the release signal; and a recording controller configured to record, on the recording device, the still image data generated by the still image generation unit, in association with the moving image data.

Image playback apparatus and computer-readable recording medium

A display control device comprises an image acquiring unit which acquires observation image data, an image recording unit which records recorded image data, an image synthesizing unit which generates synthesized image data based on the observation image data and the recorded image data, a first selector, a second selector, and a selector interlock controller. The first selector outputs one of the observation image data and the synthesized image data to a first display device as first selected data. The second selector outputs one of the first selected data and the recorded image data to a second display device as second selected data. The selector interlock controller interlocks and controls the first selectorand the second selector

Display control device and endoscope system

An image pickup apparatus includes a light source apparatus emitting a first or a second illumination light to an object, an image pickup device acquiring an image of the object, and a CPU switching between a first mode where the image is picked up with the first illumination light and a second mode where the image is picked up with the second illumination light, being able to set at least one of a processing parameter for processing an image and a brightness control parameter before switching the illumination light to the illumination light corresponding to the mode or after switching to the corresponding illumination light is completed, and controlling whether the processing parameter is set before switching of the illumination light is started or after switching is completed according to the mode switching from the first to the second mode or from the second to the first mode.

Image pickup apparatus, and operation method of image pickup apparatus

A video processor for an endoscope includes an image memory, an image processing unit, a display control unit and a recording unit. The image memory stores, as a sample image, an endoscope image which a user previously acquired. The image processing unit performs the image processing for changing an image quality of the sample image in accordance with a selection value selected by a user and produces a processed image. The display control unit causes a display unit to display the processed image. The recording unit records, as a setting value, a value relating to the selection value determined by the user. The image processing unit performs the image processing, based on the setting value, for the endoscope image.

Video processor for endoscope, and endoscope system including the same

An image pickup apparatus includes: an image pickup device configured to pick up an optical image formed by an objective optical system and generate an image; a cut-out range setting portion configured to set a cut-out area so that a center comes close to a field-of-view center as a zoom magnification set by an electronic zoom setting portion increases; and a zoom processing portion configured to cut out the set cut-out area from the image, perform enlargement or reduction corresponding to the zoom magnification and generate a zoomed image.

Image pickup apparatus, image processing apparatus, and method for activating image pickup apparatus

An image processing apparatus includes a first input section configured to receive image data including images in a forward field of view and a lateral field of view; an enhancement processing section configured to enhance edges of images corresponding to the image data received; and a boundary correction section provided on a downstream side of the enhancement processing section and configured to perform a correction process non-commutative with an edge enhancement process, the correction process being performed on a boundary region between a forward field of view and a lateral field of view using the image data subjected to edge enhancement.

Image processing apparatus and method for operating image processing apparatus

An image pickup apparatus includes an endoscope configured to have an image pickup section in which a plurality of pixels are provided, and a storage section configured to store scope individual information, a binning processing section configured to split an image into a plurality of regions so that one region includes a plurality of pixel signals, and add up the pixel signals for each region to obtain a binning pixel signal, a binning brightness detection section configured to detect brightness of the region, a blend processing section configured to set a weight in the region on the basis of the brightness, and weight and composite the pixel signals and the binning pixel signal to generate a composite image, and a control section configured to control the binning processing section in accordance with the scope individual information.

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