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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:
Apr. 23, 2019

Filed:

Jun. 06, 2016
Applicant:

Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Naoya Kuriyama, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/06 (2006.01); A61B 1/005 (2006.01); G06T 3/40 (2006.01); H04N 9/04 (2006.01); H04N 5/217 (2011.01); G02B 23/24 (2006.01); A61B 1/05 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/00009 (2013.01); A61B 1/005 (2013.01); A61B 1/00114 (2013.01); A61B 1/00186 (2013.01); A61B 1/0638 (2013.01); A61B 1/0646 (2013.01); G02B 23/2484 (2013.01); G06T 3/4015 (2013.01); H04N 5/217 (2013.01); H04N 9/045 (2013.01); A61B 1/05 (2013.01); H04N 2005/2255 (2013.01); H04N 2209/043 (2013.01); H04N 2209/046 (2013.01);
Abstract

An endoscope device includes: a light source unit; an imaging device; a color filter in which a filter unit is arranged, the filter unit in which the number of filters which transmit light of a green wavelength band is equal to or larger than half the total number of filters and the number of filters which transmit light of a blue wavelength band is equal to or larger than the number of filters which transmit the light of the green wavelength band; and a noise reducing unit configured to select a pixel of interest based on used filter information determined according to the light emitted by the light source unit and a characteristic of each filter forming the color filter and detect motion between images captured at different times by using an electric signal output by the pixel of interest, thereby reducing a noise component included in the image signal.


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