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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2017
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Satoru Kikuchi, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuo Banju, Tokyo, JP;
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is an endoscope apparatus provided with: an elongated insertion portion that is inserted into a body; an image-acquisition portion that has an imaging optical system disposed at a distal end of the insertion portion and that acquires two images having parallax for the same imaging subject; an identifying portion that identifies an image of an object, which is in close proximity to the imaging optical system, that is captured only in one of the two images acquired by the image-acquisition portion; and a close-proximity-image-removal processing portion that processes the image so that the image of the object identified by the identifying portion is removed from the image.