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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2011
Seigo Kase, Hino, JP;
Yasuhito Kura, Hachioji, JP;
Yuji Sakamoto, Kunitachi, JP;
Olympus Medical Systems Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An endoscope system including an endoscope which acquires a front field-of-view image and a lateral field-of-view image of an object of observation; a detecting section which has a function capable of detecting whether a treatment instrument is used or not in the endoscope based on a notification signal which is outputted when the treatment instrument is inserted into the endoscope; and an image processing section. The image processing section generates an observation image including the front field-of-view image and the lateral field-of-view image within the same screen, displays a magnified image of one field-of-view image out of the front field-of-view image and the lateral field-of-view image on a display, and performs adjacent part display processing of displaying only a part of the one field-of-view image which is adjacent to the other field-of-view image or image compression processing of displaying a compressed image of the other field-of-view image on the display.