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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2011
Applicant:
Andreas Noack, Dragen, DE;
Inventor:
Andreas Noack, Dragen, DE;
Assignee:
OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBH, Hamburg, DE;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/04 (2006.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 13/02 (2006.01); A61B 1/05 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/00193 (2013.01); A61B 1/0008 (2013.01); A61B 1/00179 (2013.01); A61B 1/00183 (2013.01); A61B 1/05 (2013.01); H04N 13/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
A stereo endoscope having an elongated shaft and a sensor unit comprising two flat image sensors that are symmetrically arranged about a central rotational axis of the shaft. With such stereo endoscope, a lateral direction of view of the stereo endoscope which deviates from a central 0° direction of view can be variably adjusted and/or changed independent of an orientation of the image sensors relative to each other.