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Endoscopic system with spectral image forming circuit

US7965878B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJan 25, 2007
Grant dateJun 21, 2011
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Expiry dateOct 15, 2029

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  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA61B1/00186
  • WIPO fieldMedical technology
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An endoscopic system that processes a color image data of a subject from an imager mounted on an endoscope and records the processed image data in an image recorder/display unit, the endoscopic system comprising: a storage that stores matrix data for forming a spectral image; and a spectral-image forming circuit that is capable of forming (i) a spectral image in an arbitrarily-selected wavelength band according to a matrix operation of the matrix data in the storage and the color image data and (ii) a standard image according to a matrix operation of standard-image matrix data and the color image data, the standard-image matrix data being for forming a standard image.

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