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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2020
Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Taihei Michihata, Tokyo, JP;
Aki Mizukami, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A memory controller, in a first observation mode, writes a first captured image into a first memory area of a memory, reads first to fourth divided images obtained by dividing the first captured image from first to fourth divided areas of the first memory area, respectively, and outputs the first to fourth divided images to image processing unitsto, respectively, and in a second observation mode, writes the first and second captured images into second and third memory areas, respectively, each having the same memory capacity as that of each of the divided areas in the memory, respectively, reads the first and second captured images from the second and third memory areas, respectively, and outputs the first and second captured images to two image processing unitsand, respectively.