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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2016
Applicant:
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/05 (2006.01); A61B 1/06 (2006.01); A61B 1/273 (2006.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61K 49/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G02B 23/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/00009 (2013.01); A61B 1/05 (2013.01); A61B 1/063 (2013.01); A61B 1/0638 (2013.01); A61B 1/0646 (2013.01); A61B 1/0676 (2013.01); A61B 1/273 (2013.01); A61B 5/0071 (2013.01); A61K 49/006 (2013.01); G02B 23/2476 (2013.01); H04N 5/2256 (2013.01); H04N 5/23245 (2013.01); H04N 2005/2255 (2013.01);
Abstract
An endoscope includes an observation mode switch to switch observation modes. The observation modes include a dye valid observation mode allowed to acquire an image in which the dye is visually recognized well, and a dye invalid observation mode allowed to acquire an image in which the dye is substantially not visually recognized.