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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2018
Applicant:
Olympus Corporation, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Takeshi Suga, Hino, JP;
Assignee:
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/045 (2006.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/357 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 5/006 (2013.01); A61B 1/00193 (2013.01); A61B 1/045 (2013.01); H04N 5/3572 (2013.01); G06T 2200/04 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10068 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20008 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30004 (2013.01);
Abstract
An endoscope apparatus having a function of switching between the 2-D observation for a planar view and the 3-D observation for a stereoscopic view, includes an image Processor which carries out processing of reducing a distortion of an image pickup optical system for an image pickup signal achieved by an image pickup element of the endoscope apparatus at the time of the 3-D observation, and the image Processor carries out image processing that satisfies the following conditional expression (1):0.1<<0.8, as well as<0  (1)