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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2026
Filed:
May. 30, 2024
Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Koji Kojima, Tokyo, JP;
SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A medical control device includes: a dimming control unit configured to control an operation of a light source device configured to emit first light and second light, and adjust light amounts of the first and the second light; and an imaging control unit configured to control an operation of an imaging device including at least one imaging element, irradiate an observation target with the first light to capture return light of the first light via the observation target to generate a first captured image, and irradiate the observation target with the second light to capture return light of the second light via the observation target to generate a second captured image. The imaging control unit is configured to execute changing an exposure period of the imaging element, and discarding image information generated by the imaging element according to light reception in a partial period of the exposure period.