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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2015
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Takuro Miyasato, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/145 (2006.01); A61B 5/107 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/0095 (2013.01); A61B 5/14542 (2013.01); A61B 5/1077 (2013.01); A61B 5/1079 (2013.01);
Abstract
An object information acquiring apparatus, comprises an irradiating unit configured to irradiates an object with pulsed light; an acoustic wave detection unit configured to detect an acoustic wave generated from the object irradiated with the pulsed light and convert the acoustic wave into an electric signal; a storage unit configured to store a normalized light fluence distribution, which is a light fluence distribution normalized for a region of a predetermined size; and a processing unit configured to acquire characteristic information on the object using the stored normalized light fluence distribution and the electric signal.