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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2005
Yasushi Yagi, Hyogo, JP;
Tomio Echigo, Osaka, JP;
Ryusuke Sagawa, Osaka, JP;
Osaka University, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An endoscope that is free from a dead area and capable of preventing the physician from overlooking any nidus is an endoscope for taking the inside of digestive organs, and the endoscope is provided with an omnidirectional camera (), a light (), a forceps () and a rinse water injection port () at the tip (). The omnidirectional camera () is a device for taking the inside of digestive organs, and is able to take 360-degree images of its surroundings. A probe-type endoscope () is provided with a receiver () composed of orthogonal coils, and the receiver () is used for estimating the position and attitude of the probe-type endoscope (). An image taken by the omnidirectional camera () is presented on a display unit () of an image processing device () connected to the probe-type endoscope (). In the image processing device, a video mosaicking process is performed on a plurality of images obtained by the omnidirectional camera () to generate a panoramic image of the inside of a digestive organ.