Endoscope device

An endoscope device comprising:

• a normal light image acquisition unit that acquires a normal light image by capturing an image of a subject irradiated with a broadband visible light;
• a special light image acquisition unit that acquires a special light image by capturing an image of the subject irradiated with a narrowband special light;
• a blended image generation unit that generates a blended image by combining one color component image from among a plurality of color component images constituting the normal light image and the special light image;
• and a superimposed image generation unit that generates a color superimposed image by combining the blended image generated by the blended image generation unit with another color component image from among the plurality of color component images,
• wherein the blended image generation unit generates the blended image by selecting a part of pixels from among the pixels of the one color component image, and by replacing the pixels of the selected part with corresponding pixels of the special light image, so that the pixels of the part of the one color component image are replaced with the corresponding pixels of the special light image such that the pixels of the one color component image and the pixels of the special light image are blended in a substantially uniform distribution over the entire blended image.