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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2019

Filed:

Sep. 25, 2015
Applicant:

Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Yasushige Ishihara, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/04 (2006.01); G02B 23/24 (2006.01); G06T 5/50 (2006.01); A61B 1/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/0071 (2013.01); A61B 1/0005 (2013.01); A61B 1/00009 (2013.01); A61B 1/043 (2013.01); G02B 23/2469 (2013.01); G02B 23/2484 (2013.01); G06T 5/50 (2013.01); A61B 1/0638 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10024 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10064 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20221 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30004 (2013.01);
Abstract

A fluorescence observation apparatus including a light source configured to irradiate an object with white light and excitation light; and a processor comprising hardware, wherein the processor is configured to implement: a fluorescence-image generating unit and a white-light-image generating unit configured to generate a fluorescence image Gand a color white-light image, respectively; a condition setting unit configured to set weights individually for multiple color component images constituting the white-light image; and a combining unit configured to combine at least one color component image to which the fluorescence image has been added and the other color component images while applying the weights, and the condition setting unit configured to set the weights based on the color component images such that the weight for the color component image to which the fluorescence image is added is greater than the weights for the other color component images.


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