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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 17, 1994
Kei Takasugi, Tokyo, JP;
Kazunari Nakamura, Tokyo, JP;
Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An endoscope image sensing and processing apparatus uses the level of brightness of G and B signals at position (i, j) generated by subjecting an image of a subject picked up by a CCD to a signal process to detect the hemoglobin quantity IHb (i, j), discriminates whether or not the hemoglobin quantity IHb (i, j) in the image portion, which is the subject, is included in a predetermined range of a set subject quantity or outside the same to generate pseudo color data for displaying an image portion within the predetermined range and an image portion outside the predetermined range in different display colors so as to display the image portions on a monitor.