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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2014
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Kazuhiko Fukutani, Kyoto, JP;
Assignee:
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/489 (2013.01); A61B 5/0095 (2013.01);
Abstract
Provided is an object information acquiring apparatus having: a light source; a probe that converts an acoustic wave generated from an object, onto which light is irradiated from the light source, into a detection signal; and a signal processor that obtains characteristic information inside the object based on the detection signal, wherein the signal processor obtains the characteristic information using information regarding a characteristic structure of a measurement target inside the object.