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US 12,003,891 B2Granted
Image recording apparatus, image recording method, and endoscope system
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorJunichi Tashiro
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Abstract
An image recording apparatus includes a processor. The processor records setting information corresponding to at least one of a procedure or a scene during the procedure, sets a color to be detected from a fluorescent image and a detection level based on the setting information, detects a level of the set color from the fluorescent image inputted, and outputs signals to start and stop recording of the inputted fluorescent image by comparing the detected level of the color with a threshold based on the detection level.
Claims10
An image recording apparatus comprising:
- a processor comprising hardware, and
- an image generation circuit configured to perform a reproduction operation based on control by the processor and setting information,
- wherein the processor being configured to:
- record setting information corresponding to at least one of a procedure or a scene during the procedure;
- set a color to be detected from a fluorescent image and a detection level based on the setting information;
- detect a level of the set color from the fluorescent image inputted;
- and
- output signals to start and stop recording of the inputted fluorescent image by comparing the detected level of the color with a threshold based on the detection level, and record an observation image acquired in a normal observation mode and the fluorescent image acquired in a fluorescence observation mode at a same time, and
- wherein the image generation circuit generates a reproduction image to display the observation image acquired in the normal observation mode and the fluorescent image at the same time.
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An image recording apparatus comprising:
- an image generation circuit;
- and
- a processor comprising hardware, the processor being configured to:
- record setting information corresponding to at least one of a procedure or a scene during the procedure;
- set a color to be detected from a fluorescent image and a detection level based on the setting information;
- detect a level of the set color from the fluorescent image inputted;
- and
- output signals to start and stop recording of the inputted fluorescent image by comparing the detected level of the color with a threshold based on the detection level,
- wherein the image generation circuit being configured to generate a reproduction image based on the recorded fluorescent image,
- the processor performs control to record the fluorescent image during a period when the inputted fluorescent image is determined as being usable for identification in an examination, as a result of the comparison,
- the image generation circuit performs reproduction operation based on control by the processor and the setting information,
- the processor can record an observation image acquired in a normal observation mode and the fluorescent image acquired in a fluorescence observation mode at a same time, and
- the image generation circuit generates a reproduction image to display the observation image acquired in the normal observation mode and the fluorescent image at the same time by a picture-in-picture method or a picture-out-picture method.
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An image recording method, comprising:
- recording setting information corresponding to at least one of a procedure or a scene during the procedure;
- setting a color to be detected from a fluorescent image and a detection level based on the setting information;
- detecting a level of the set color from the fluorescent image inputted;
- and
- comparing the detected level of the color with a threshold based on the detection level, to thereby determine whether the inputted fluorescent image is usable for identification in an examination, and based on a result of the determination, outputting signals to start and stop recording of the inputted fluorescent image.
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An endoscope system, comprising:
- an endoscope;
- an image pickup control apparatus connected to the endoscope and configured to control image pickup;
- and
- an image recording apparatus including a processor comprising hardware, the processor being configured to:
- detect an image signal outputted from the image pickup control apparatus;
- record setting information corresponding to at least one of a procedure or a scene during the procedure;
- set a color to be detected from a fluorescent image and a detection level based on the setting information;
- detect a level of the set color from the fluorescent image inputted, based on a detection result of the image signal;
- output signals to start and stop recording of the inputted fluorescent image by comparing the detected level of the color with a threshold based on the detection level, and
- record the fluorescent image during a period when the inputted fluorescent image is determined as being usable for identification, as a result of the comparison.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.