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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2023
Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Tatsuya Nakanishi, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An endoscope device includes a light source that supplies first light having in a first emission pattern that changes with time and a second light that is at least partially superimposed on the first light and changes in a second emission pattern with time, an optical system including an insertion member, that illuminates a target region of a subject with light from the light source, a camera configured to receive reflected light reflected by the target region, and a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to detect whether reflected light of third light changing in a combined pattern obtained by combining the first emission pattern and the second emission pattern is received. When the reflected light of the third light is received, the control circuit is configured to determine that the light guide and the insertion member are connected.
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