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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2012
Applicant:
Olympus Medical Systems Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Katsuichi Imaizumi, Hino, JP;
Assignee:
Olympus Medical Systems Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/04 (2006.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/06 (2006.01); A61B 1/07 (2006.01); A61B 1/05 (2006.01); A61B 19/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/0005 (2013.01); A61B 1/00009 (2013.01); A61B 1/043 (2013.01); A61B 1/0638 (2013.01); A61B 1/00006 (2013.01); A61B 1/00114 (2013.01); A61B 1/00117 (2013.01); A61B 1/00124 (2013.01); A61B 1/00126 (2013.01); A61B 1/0019 (2013.01); A61B 1/00193 (2013.01); A61B 1/0002 (2013.01); A61B 1/00039 (2013.01); A61B 1/00059 (2013.01); A61B 1/0684 (2013.01); A61B 1/07 (2013.01); A61B 1/00188 (2013.01); A61B 1/051 (2013.01); A61B 1/0669 (2013.01); A61B 2019/5289 (2013.01);
Abstract
A processor of an endoscope apparatus that is a medical apparatus generates two images that are a normal-light observation image and a special-light observation image that are obtained by picking up a return light, determines matching of observation fields of view with respect to the two images, generates a marker M that indicates a position on a living tissue for at least one of the two images based on the determination result, causes the generated two images to be displayed within a screen of a monitor, and displays the generated marker M by superimposing the marker M on at least one of the two images.