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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2013
Olympus Medical Systems Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Tsutomu Sasamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Olympus Medical Systems Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An endoscope apparatus includes an objective optical system mounted at a distal end portion of an endoscope, which is inserted into a tube cavity, and configured to form an image of an object in the tube cavity, the objective optical system including a focusing lens movable in an optical axis direction, a solid-state image pickup device for color image pickup configured to pick up the image formed by the objective optical system, a color separation filter being arranged for each pixel in the solid-state image pickup device, a focus adjusting mechanism configured to move the focusing lens and automatically adjust the objective optical system to a focus position in a focused state, a moving range switching section configured to perform switching of a moving range of the focusing lens, a moving range limiting section configured to limit the moving range in association with the switching by the moving range switching section, and the like.