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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2016
Applicant:
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/06 (2006.01); A61B 1/04 (2006.01); H04N 9/73 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G02B 23/24 (2006.01); G03B 17/08 (2006.01); H04N 5/235 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/735 (2013.01); A61B 1/04 (2013.01); A61B 1/06 (2013.01); G02B 23/2484 (2013.01); G03B 17/08 (2013.01); H04N 5/225 (2013.01); H04N 5/232 (2013.01); H04N 5/2354 (2013.01); H04N 2005/2255 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image pickup apparatus is an image pickup apparatus capable of acquiring an image of an object in gas and in liquid, the image pickup apparatus including: an image pickup optical system; an image pickup device; a controlling portion configured to make an in-gas judgment if a vignetting portion is detected in an image signal and make an in-liquid judgment if a vignetting portion is not detected in the image signal; and a display data generating portion configured to generate certain display data corresponding to in-gas image pickup if the in-gas judgment is made and generate other display data corresponding to in-liquid image pickup if the in-liquid judgment is made.