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US 10,517,462 B2Granted
Observation apparatus and endoscope system
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorsMasahiro Nishio, Takeshi Ito, Satoshi Ohara, Motoki Tabata
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Abstract
A light source illumination unit has operation modes including at least a normal electric power mode to operate with first electric power consumption, and a low electric power mode to operate with second electric power consumption lower than the first electric power consumption. A controller selects at least one of the operation modes in accordance with a use schedule, and controls the light source illumination unit in accordance with the selected operation mode.
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An observation apparatus which comprises:
- a light source to illuminate illumination light to an observation target, wherein the light source has operation modes including at least a normal electric power mode to operate with first electric power consumption, and a low electric power mode to operate with second electric power consumption lower than the first electric power consumption;
- an imaging sensor to image the observation target by receiving light reflected by the observation target to which the illumination light is illuminated;
- a controller comprising hardware, the controller being configured to:
- estimate scheduled use time information having a future scheduled use time of the observation apparatus;
- and
- control electric power consumption of the light source on the basis of the scheduled use time information estimated by the controller,
- wherein the controller further:
- selects at least one of the operation modes in accordance with a use schedule, and controls the light source in accordance with the selected operation mode,
- calculates usable time information having a time in which the observation apparatus is usable,
- when the scheduled use time information is longer than the usable time information, select the low electric power mode from among the operation modes,
- when, the low electric power mode is selected, judge that the scheduled use time information subtracted from the usable time is above a threshold, and select the normal electric power mode from among the operation modes.
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An observation apparatus which comprises:
- a light source to illuminate illumination light to an observation target, wherein the light source has operation modes including at least a normal electric power mode to operate with first electric power consumption, and a low electric power mode to operate with second electric power consumption lower than the first electric power consumption;
- an imaging sensor to image the observation target by receiving light reflected by the observation target to which the illumination light is illuminated;
- a controller comprising hardware, the controller being configured to:
- estimate scheduled use time information having a future scheduled use time of the observation apparatus;
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- control electric power consumption of the light source on the basis of the scheduled use time information estimated by the controller,
- wherein the controller further:
- selects at least one of the operation modes in accordance with a use schedule, and controls the light source in accordance with the selected operation mode,
- wherein the light source illumination unit illuminates more than one kind of illumination light different in wavelength spectrum, and
- the controller controls the light source illumination unit so that first illumination light is illuminated in the normal electric power mode, and second illumination light is illuminated with electric power consumption lower than electric power consumption for the use of the first illumination light in the low electric power mode.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.