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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2013

Filed:

Sep. 01, 2005
Applicants:

Amram Aizenfeld, Kibbutz Ramot Menashe, IL;

Victor Levin, Haifa, IL;

Omer Shezifi, Haifa, IL;

Dan Oz, Even Yehuda, IL;

Yuri Gershov, Haifa, IL;

Leonid Krivopisk, Nesher, IL;

Yakov Bar-or, Haifa, IL;

Inventors:

Amram Aizenfeld, Kibbutz Ramot Menashe, IL;

Victor Levin, Haifa, IL;

Omer Shezifi, Haifa, IL;

Dan Oz, Even Yehuda, IL;

Yuri Gershov, Haifa, IL;

Leonid Krivopisk, Nesher, IL;

Yakov Bar-Or, Haifa, IL;

Assignee:

Stryker GI Services C.V., Waardenburg, NL;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An optical head for an endoscope is fitted with an imaging system comprising a solid state imaging sensor and with an illuminating system comprising illuminating means, e.g. LED's. At least one illuminating means is defined by a parameter, which value is different from the value of the same parameter of the remaining illuminating means. Among the parameters are luminous intensity, luminous intensity distribution angle, and direction of the longitudinal axis of the illuminating means.


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