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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 13, 1996
Tohru Oka, Ichinomiya, JP;
Colin Corporation, Komaki, JP;
Abstract
A physical-information-image displaying apparatus for use with an endoscope including an image pick-up which picks up an endoscopic image from a living subject and produces an endoscopic-image signal representing the picked-up endoscopic image, and a display which displays the picked-up endoscopic image represented by the endoscopic-image signal, the apparatus including a physical-information obtaining device which obtains a physical information from the subject and produces a physical-information signal representing the obtained physical information, a physical-information-image-signal producing device which produces, based on the physical-information signal produced by the physical-information obtaining device, a physical-information-image signal representing a physical-information image corresponding to the obtained physical information, and a superimposing device which superimposes the physical-information-image signal produced by the physical-information-image-signal producing device, on the endoscopic-image signal produced by the image pick-up of the endoscope, so that the physical-information image represented by the physical-information-image signal is superimposed on the picked-up endoscopic image represented by the endoscopic-image signal, on the display of the endoscope.