Image search device
AssigneeAsahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorChinari Tanaka
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Abstract
An endoscopic apparatus has an objective optical system arranged in a rigid endoscope for forming an image, a first image re-forming optical system for re-forming a part of the image once formed through the objective optical system on an image pickup surface of a first CCD camera and a second image re-forming optical system which re-forms an image once formed through an objective optical system on an image pickup surface of a second CCD camera. A second monitor displays the image picked up by the second CCD camera added with a rectangular frame indicating size and amplitude of the area corresponding to the image picked up by the first CCD camera.
Claims7
An image search device comprising:
- a first image pickup optical system;
- a first image pickup device which picks up an image of a predetermined visual field formed through said first image pickup optical system to output a first image signal representing the picked up image;
- a second image pickup optical system including at least one lens which forms an image of at least a part of the predetermined visual field;
- a second image pickup device which picks up the image formed through said second image pickup optical system to output a second image signal representing the picked up image;
- a shift unit which shifts an area to be picked up by said second image pickup device through said second image pickup optical system within the predetermined visual field by shifting an optical axis of the lens in said second image pickup optical system relative to said second image pickup device;
- an image synthesizing unit which adds an image signal representing a mark showing the area corresponding to the image picked up by said second image pickup device to the first image signal based on an amount of the relative shift of said optical axis to said second image pickup device;
- a first display unit which displays the image represented by said first image signal performed with said synthetic processing by said image synthesizing unit;
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- a second display unit which displays the image represented by said second image signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.