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US 2018/0008134 A1Published application
Endoscope system
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorsYasunori MORITA, Seigo ON, Jumpei TAKAHASHI, Naoya KURIYAMA, Keiji HIGUCHI
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Abstract
An endoscope system includes an image acquisition section, an attention area setting section, and a dimming control section. The image acquisition section acquires a captured image that includes an object image. The attention area setting section sets an attention area within the captured image based on information from the endoscope system. The dimming control section performs a dimming control process that controls the intensity of illumination light based on the attention area set by the attention area setting section.
Claims7
An endoscope system comprising:
- an image acquisition section that acquires a captured image that includes an object image, the object image being obtained by applying illumination light emitted from a light source section to an object;
- an attention area setting section that sets an attention area within the captured image based on information from the endoscope system;
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- a dimming control section that performs a dimming control process that controls an intensity of the illumination light based on the attention area set by the attention area setting section,
- the attention area setting section calculating a feature quantity based on the captured image, and setting the attention area based on an area having a given feature quantity.
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