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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2018
Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Masahito Yokouchi, Tokyo, JP;
Yuichi Yamada, Tokyo, JP;
SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A medical imaging device includes: a first and a second imaging units configured to capture a first and a second optical images having parallax, respectively; a first and a second imaging optical systems configured to form the first and the second optical images on light receiving surfaces of the first and the second imaging units, respectively; a dirt detecting unit configured to detect dirt adhered to at least one of the first and the second imaging optical systems; an image generation unit configured to generate a three-dimensional image based on a first captured image based on the first image signal and a second captured image based on the second image signal; and an image selector configured to select a captured image to be output from the first captured image and the second captured image based on a detection result of the dirt by the dirt detecting unit.