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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2016
Applicant:
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/04 (2006.01); A61B 1/05 (2006.01); H04N 5/341 (2011.01); H04N 5/361 (2011.01); H04N 5/374 (2011.01); H04N 5/378 (2011.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); G02B 23/24 (2006.01); H04N 5/376 (2011.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/051 (2013.01); A61B 1/00009 (2013.01); A61B 1/04 (2013.01); G02B 23/2484 (2013.01); H04N 5/341 (2013.01); H04N 5/361 (2013.01); H04N 5/374 (2013.01); H04N 5/378 (2013.01); H04N 5/3765 (2013.01); H04N 2005/2255 (2013.01);
Abstract
An endoscope includes: a CMOS image sensor including only a vertical OB pixel region as an optical black pixel region, and a horizontal OB pixel region generation processing section that reads a photoelectric conversion signal generated in an effective pixel region in the CMOS image sensor and an OB signal generated in the vertical OB pixel region, adds the OB signal generated in the vertical OB pixel region to the beginning or end of each row of the photoelectric conversion signal which has been generated in the effective pixel region and read out for each row, and outputs a signal to which the OB signal is added.