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Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2015

Filed:

May. 23, 2013
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Yukio Furukawa, Sagamihara, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/0095 (2013.01); A61B 2576/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed is an object information acquiring apparatus including: a receiver that includes a plurality of elements and converts an acoustic wave generated from an object irradiated with light into a received signal, and outputs the received signal in a time series; a normalizer that generates a normalized signal by normalizing the intensity of the received signal; and a processor that generates, from the normalized signal, first image data that indicates the distribution of property information inside the object.


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