Abstract:
An optical device includes a light source unit and a body unit. The light source unit includes a first light source configured to emit first irradiation light, a second light source configured to emit second irradiation light, a light source control unit, and a light collecting unit. The body unit includes an insertion section. The insertion section includes a light guide member, an optical system, an optical filter, a first imager configured to output image information of a subject, and a second imager configured to output distance information from the optical system to the subject. In the second irradiation light, light intensity is temporally modulated, and the first irradiation light and the second irradiation light are emanated from the insertion section. First measurement light includes light in the same wavelength band as a part of the wavelength band of the first irradiation light, and second measurement light includes light in the same wavelength band as the wavelength band of the second irradiation light, and error information included in the distance information is reduced.
Abstract:
An endoscope apparatus includes an illumination apparatus that applies first and second narrow-band light having different peak wavelengths to a subject, an imaging device that acquires image light from the subject with pixels to generate an acquisition image signal, and an image processing circuit. The image processing circuit includes a storage that has stored assumed subject types including information about a wavelength range of assumed subjects, and a subject type decision circuit that decides an assumed subject type for part of the pixels based on a first image signal about the first narrow-band light, a second image signal about the second narrow-band light, and the assumed subject types. The image processing circuit constructs a display image signal based on the acquisition image signal and decided assumed subject type.
Abstract:
The endoscope apparatus includes a light exit that radiates an illumination light constituted by narrow-band lights to an observation target, an image sensor that detects a reflected/scattered light from the observation target to output an imaging signal, and an image processing circuit that processes the imaging signal. The image processing circuit includes an estimator that associates, regarding each color sensitivity region of the image sensor, a peak wavelength of the narrow-band light with the intensity of the reflected/scattered light to derive narrow-band light spectral intensity information, estimating wavelength lacking region spectral intensity information, and a processor that performs wavelength lacking region correction processing on the basis of the narrow-band light spectral intensity information and the wavelength lacking region spectral intensity information so that the image signal will be closer to an image signal obtained when an illumination light having no wavelength lacking regions is applied.
Abstract:
A light source device includes a primary light source unit and a light converting unit. The primary light source unit includes a primary light emitting portion. The light converting unit includes a light converting member and a secondary light emitting portion. In the two-dimensional shape of the secondary light emitting portion projected on a surface perpendicular to the optical axis of primary light, the length of the minimum width of the two-dimensional shape passing through the center of gravity of the two-dimensional shape is different from the length of the maximum width of the two-dimensional shape passing through the center of gravity.
Abstract:
An optical connection module for an endoscope includes: an optical fiber having a fiber end surface and configured to guide a part of emitted light emitted from a light source and incident on the fiber end surface; a ferrule having a ferrule end surface with an opening of a through-hole into which the optical fiber is inserted, the ferrule including a scatterer configured to scatter, in an inside of the ferrule, a part of the emitted light incident on the ferrule end surface, the ferrule being configured to emit scattered light generated by scattering from a side surface; and an optical sensor arranged in the periphery of the side surface of the ferrule and configured to receive the scattered light.
Abstract:
A light source device includes: a rotating body configured to be rotated with a rotating shaft as a center; a first wavelength conversion portion arranged on a circumference of a circle of a predetermined radius with the rotating shaft as the center in the rotating body, and configured to be irradiated with light to generate light of a wavelength different from a wavelength of the light; and a second wavelength conversion portion arranged on a circumference of a circle of a radius larger than the predetermined radius with the rotating shaft as the center in the rotating body, configured to be irradiated with light to generate light of a wavelength different from a wavelength of the light, and including a characteristic that conversion efficiency of the wavelength declines due to rise of a temperature more than the first wavelength conversion portion.
Abstract:
An endoscope system includes an illumination section, a color component ratio measurement section and a light quantity ratio adjustment circuit. The illumination section including a light source sequentially or simultaneously radiates an illumination light being a plurality of narrow-band lights having wavelengths different from each other and having light quantities which are independently controllable each other, on an observation object. The color component ratio measurement section measures a color component ratio of the illumination light. The light quantity ratio adjustment circuit adjusts a light quantity ratio of the narrow-band lights based on an output from the color component ratio measurement section and performs color correction to cause the illumination light to be a desired color.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes lasers to respectively emit lights having central wavelengths different from each other, an imager to output an image signal upon receiving light from a subject, a laser wavelength-specific image information acquirer to acquire, from the image signal output from the imager, pieces of laser wavelength-specific image information, and an image former to combine the pieces of laser wavelength-specific image information supplied from the laser wavelength-specific image information acquirer, so as to form an observation image in each mode included in the observation modes.
Abstract:
An imaging apparatus includes an illumination section, an imaging section, and an image processor. The illumination section includes an illumination unit configured to selectively emit illumination light rays of light wavelength bands different from each other, and an illumination switch controller which generates an illumination unit control signal corresponding to each of sets of emission patterns so that combinations of the light wavelength bands of the illumination light rays emitted from the illumination unit are different from each other and the illumination switch controller controlling the illumination unit so that the illumination light rays are sequentially emitted from the illumination unit in the sets of emission patterns different from each other.
Abstract:
A medical image formation apparatus includes laser emitting elements which emit laser light rays different in wavelength, an image selection circuit to select a kind of observation image, a light source controller which controls the laser emitting elements, in accordance with an observation mode corresponding to the selected kind, an imager which images return light ray from an observation target and then outputs the return light ray as an image signal, and an image processor which forms the observation images. A first laser emitting group is controlled when the kind of selected observation image is a first observation image. A second laser emitting group is controlled when the kind of selected observation image is a second observation image. The first laser emitting group and the second laser emitting group include a first common laser emitting element.