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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:
Dec. 06, 2016

Filed:

May. 04, 2012
Applicants:

Koichiro Yoshino, Tokyo, JP;

Yasunori Morita, Hachiouji, JP;

Inventors:

Koichiro Yoshino, Tokyo, JP;

Yasunori Morita, Hachiouji, JP;

Assignee:

OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/18 (2006.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/04 (2006.01); A61B 1/06 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/183 (2013.01); A61B 1/0005 (2013.01); A61B 1/043 (2013.01); A61B 1/0638 (2013.01); A61B 1/0646 (2013.01); A61B 5/0084 (2013.01);
Abstract

The image processing device includes: a first image acquisition section that acquires a first image, the first image being an image that includes an object image including information within a wavelength band of white light; a second image acquisition section that acquires a second image, the second image being an image that includes an object image including information within a specific wavelength band; a candidate attention area detection section that detects a candidate attention area based on a feature quantity of each pixel within the second image; a reliability calculation section that calculates reliability that indicates a likelihood that the candidate attention area is the attention area; and a display mode setting section that performs a display mode setting process that sets a display mode of an output image corresponding to the reliability calculated by the reliability calculation section.


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