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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2016
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Kentaro Fukazawa, Tokyo, JP;
Takeshi Miyai, Kanagawa, JP;
Kenta Yamaguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Yukihiro Nakamura, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/06 (2006.01); A61B 1/04 (2006.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/00009 (2013.01); A61B 1/0623 (2013.01); A61B 1/0661 (2013.01); A61B 1/0669 (2013.01); A61B 1/0676 (2013.01); A61B 1/0684 (2013.01); H04N 5/2256 (2013.01);
Abstract
An endoscopic system including an endoscope device that outputs image data, an illumination device that illuminates a body of a patient, and circuitry that obtains, from the image data, at least two frames each captured with a different illumination state, generate, from at least two obtained frames, a composite image that has a reduced specular reflection light component with respect to at least one of the obtained frames, and generate a video signal including the composite image.