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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 14, 2013
Olympus Medical Systems Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Daisuke Akiyama, Tokyo, JP;
Tsutomu Uzawa, Tokyo, JP;
Olympus Medical Systems Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is an endoscope apparatus including a light-guiding part that guides illumination light emitted from a light source to the distal end of an inserted portion; a scanning part that makes the light-guiding part vibrate with a predetermined period, thus two-dimensionally scanning the illumination light emitted from the inserted portion on an observation subject; an image-acquisition part that receives return light of the illumination light coming from the observation subject and that generates an image signal based on a position scanned by the scanning part and an intensity of the return light; and a light-source control part that controls the light source so as to change the intensity of the illumination light emitted from the inserted portion in accordance with an angle formed between the longitudinal direction of the inserted portion and a direction in which the illumination light is emitted toward the observation subject.