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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2020
Filed:
May. 10, 2017
Olympus Corporation, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo, JP;
Ken Sato, Hachioji, JP;
Hiromasa Fujita, Hachioji, JP;
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Example embodiments of the present invention relate to systems methods and computer program products for bend estimation. The system comprises a first and second light absorbers disposed at a substantially same position along an axis of a light guide and enabled to absorb first and second respective amounts of a plurality of wavelengths of a light transmitted along the light guide, a light detector enabled to detect respective intensities of the plurality of wavelengths of the light not absorbed by the first and second light absorbers, and a processor enabled to calculate a bend state of the light guide according to the detected intensities of the plurality of wavelengths of the light.