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US 2017/0000314 A1Published application
Endoscope system
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorKazuki HONDA
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Abstract
An endoscope system includes an insertion portion, a front observation lens, a surrounding observation lens, an image generation section, an image processing section, a first illumination lens, second illumination lenses, and a filter driving section.
Claims16
An endoscope system comprising:
- an insertion portion inserted into a subject;
- a first subject image acquisition portion provided on the insertion portion and configured to acquire a first subject image from a first region of the subject;
- a second subject image acquisition portion provided on the insertion portion and configured to acquire a second subject image from a second region of the subject at least partially different from the first region;
- an image generation section configured to generate a first image from the first subject image and generate a second image from the second subject image;
- an image processing section configured to receive setting information related to sizes of the first image and the second image and execute a process of changing the sizes of the first image and the second image displayed on a display section based on the setting information;
- a first illumination portion configured to emit first illuminating light to the first region;
- a second illumination portion configured to emit second illuminating light to the second region;
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- an illumination control section configured to set a sum of amounts of the illuminating light respectively emitted to the first region and the second region to equal to or smaller than a predetermined amount and set a difference between the amounts of the first illuminating light and the second illuminating light to a relationship according to a magnitude correlation between the first image and the second image displayed on the display section.
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