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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2016
Applicant:
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Hiroyuki Kamee, Koganei, JP;
Assignee:
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/345 (2011.01); A61B 1/04 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); H04N 9/31 (2006.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); G02B 23/24 (2006.01); A61B 1/045 (2006.01); A61B 1/06 (2006.01); A61B 5/1455 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 5/33 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/345 (2013.01); A61B 1/04 (2013.01); A61B 1/045 (2013.01); A61B 1/06 (2013.01); A61B 1/0638 (2013.01); A61B 5/14552 (2013.01); G02B 23/2469 (2013.01); H04N 5/2256 (2013.01); H04N 5/23245 (2013.01); H04N 5/23293 (2013.01); H04N 5/332 (2013.01); H04N 2005/2255 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes lasers to respectively emit lights having central wavelengths different from each other, an imager to output an image signal upon receiving light from a subject, a laser wavelength-specific image information acquirer to acquire, from the image signal output from the imager, pieces of laser wavelength-specific image information, and an image former to combine the pieces of laser wavelength-specific image information supplied from the laser wavelength-specific image information acquirer, so as to form an observation image in each mode included in the observation modes.