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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2017
The University Court of the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, GB;
Nikola Krstajic, Edinburgh, GB;
Kev Dhaliwal, Edinburgh, GB;
THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, Edindurgh, GB;
Abstract
An endoscopic imaging apparatus comprises at least one light source () configured to provide excitation signals to an imaging region via a common transmission path. Each excitation signal has one of a plurality of different colours. A controller () is configured to control the at least one light source () to provide the excitation signals as a repeating time-interleaved sequence that comprises at least an excitation signal of a first one of the colours and a subsequent excitation signal of a second one of the colours. A monochrome detector () is configured, for each of at least some of the excitation signals, to receive at least part of a respective response signal emitted from the imaging region in response to the excitation signal and to generate image data based on the at least part of the response signal.