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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2017
Applicant:
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/04 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/00009 (2013.01); A61B 1/0005 (2013.01); A61B 1/04 (2013.01); A61B 5/0084 (2013.01); A61B 5/02007 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image processing apparatus includes: a narrowband image acquisition unit configured to acquire a narrowband image showing inside of a lumen; a white light image acquisition unit configured to acquire a white light image showing the inside of the lumen; and a composite image generation unit configured to combine information of the narrowband image to the white light image, according to a depth of a submucosal object, to generate a composite image for display.