Endoscope apparatus and method of controlling endoscope apparatus
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorSeigo ON
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Abstract
An endoscope apparatus includes an observation magnification acquisition section that acquires magnification state information that indicates a state of an observation magnification, a motion detection section that detects motion amount information that indicates a relative motion amount of an object and an imaging section of the endoscope apparatus, an imaging period control section that reduces an imaging period of each image that is indicated by an image signal captured by the endoscope apparatus based on the magnification state information and the motion amount information, and a light source control section that controls intensity of illumination light applied to the object corresponding to the imaging period.
Claims16
An endoscope apparatus comprising:
- an observation magnification acquisition section that acquires magnification state information that indicates a state of an observation magnification;
- a motion detection section that detects motion amount information that indicates a relative motion amount of an object and an imaging section of the endoscope apparatus;
- an imaging period control section that reduces an imaging period of each image that is indicated by an image signal captured by the endoscope apparatus based on the magnification state information and the motion amount information;
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- a light source control section that controls intensity of illumination light applied to the object corresponding to the imaging period.
A method of controlling an endoscope apparatus comprising:
- acquiring magnification state information and motion amount information, the magnification state information indicating a state of an observation magnification, and the motion amount information indicating a relative motion amount of an object and an imaging section of the endoscope apparatus;
- reducing an imaging period of each image that is indicated by an image signal captured by the endoscope apparatus based on the acquired magnification state information and the acquired motion amount information;
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- controlling intensity of illumination light applied to the object corresponding to the reduced imaging period.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.