Endoscope apparatus and method for operating endoscope apparatus
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorTakayuki SATO
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Abstract
An endoscope apparatus includes a distance information acquisition section that detects the position of a treatment tool and the position of a specific part, and acquires distance information about a distance between the specific part and the treatment tool based on the detected position of the treatment tool and the detected position of the specific part, a degree-of-closeness acquisition section that acquires the degree of closeness between the specific part and the treatment tool based on the distance information, and a treatment tool control section that controls at least one of an incision-related setting and a bleeding arrest-related setting of the treatment tool based on the degree of closeness.
Claims18
An endoscope apparatus comprising:
- a distance information acquisition section that detects a position of a treatment tool and a position of a specific part, and acquires distance information about a distance between the specific part and the treatment tool based on the detected position of the treatment tool and the detected position of the specific part;
- a degree-of-closeness acquisition section that acquires a degree of closeness between the specific part and the treatment tool based on the distance information;
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- a treatment tool control section that controls at least one of an incision-related setting and a bleeding arrest-related setting of the treatment tool based on the degree of closeness.
A method for operating an endoscope apparatus comprising:
- detecting a position of a treatment tool and a position of a specific part, and acquiring distance information about a distance between the specific part and the treatment tool based on the detected position of the treatment tool and the detected position of the specific part;
- acquiring a degree of closeness between the specific part and the treatment tool based on the distance information;
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- controlling at least one of an incision-related setting and a bleeding arrest-related setting of the treatment tool based on the degree of closeness.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.