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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2021
Filed:
May. 11, 2017
Applicant:
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Kei Mitsuhashi, Nishitokyo, JP;
Assignee:
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/00009 (2013.01); A61B 1/00 (2013.01); A61B 1/00016 (2013.01); A61B 1/041 (2013.01); A61B 1/04 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image processing apparatus includes a processor comprising hardware. The processor is configured to: acquire a movement amount of a capsule endoscope in a movement direction of the capsule endoscope, based on information transmitted from the capsule endoscope including an imaging sensor; and determine whether to associate a first image captured by the imaging sensor with a second image, which is captured by the imaging sensor and is captured at a time different from a time in which the imaging sensor captures the first image, based on an imaging distance of the imaging sensor in the movement direction, and the movement amount.