Endoscope system
    1.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11871906B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-16

    申请号:US17108205

    申请日:2020-12-01

    Inventor: Koji Matsumoto

    CPC classification number: A61B1/0638 A61B1/00006 A61B1/000094 A61B1/0605

    Abstract: An endoscope system includes: an illumination portion that includes a light source and that is configured to radiate an illumination light beam having a spatially nonuniform intensity distribution onto an imaging subject; a first imager and a second imager disposed at positions that are different from each other and configured to respectively acquire a first illumination image and a second illumination image of the imaging subject being illuminated with the illumination light beam; and at least one processor configured to: create a first deep-layer image and a first surface-layer image from the first illumination image and create a second deep-layer image and a second surface-layer image from the second illumination image; and create a combined deep-layer image by combining the first deep-layer image and the second deep-layer image on the basis of pixel values of the first and second surface-layer images.

    Interference fringe projection optical system and shape measurement apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US10782125B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-22

    申请号:US15794831

    申请日:2017-10-26

    Inventor: Koji Matsumoto

    Abstract: An interference fringe generating optical system generates an interference fringe, and a magnifying optical system magnifies the interference fringe and projects the interference fringe on an object surface. The magnifying optical system includes an incident-side lens group on the side where a light beam forming the interference fringe is incident and an exit-side lens group on the side where the light beam is emitted and the interference fringe is projected towards the object surface. The expression f1/f2>3 holds, where f1 is the focal length of the incident-side lens group, and f2 is the focal length of the exit-side lens group. The incident-side and exit-side lens groups each have a positive refractive power. The expression xd/(f1+f2)

    Measurement probe and bio-optical measurement system with contact detection

    公开(公告)号:US10682043B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-16

    申请号:US15499512

    申请日:2017-04-27

    Inventor: Koji Matsumoto

    Abstract: A measurement probe is configured to be detachably connected to a bio-optical measurement apparatus and includes: an illuminating fiber configured to irradiate body tissues with illumination light; light receiving fibers configured to receive return light of the illumination light reflected and/or scattered from the body tissues; an optical element configured to transmit the illumination light and the return light and to keep distances between the body tissues and distal ends of the illuminating fiber and the light receiving fibers, constant; and a contact detecting fiber configured to receive the return light to detect contact between a distal end face of the optical element and the body tissues, and detect the return light at a detection region on the distal end face through which the illumination light and the return light pass. The detection region is located outside an illumination region of the illuminating fiber.

    Light treatment system and balloon catheter

    公开(公告)号:US11602641B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-14

    申请号:US17188141

    申请日:2021-03-01

    Abstract: A light treatment system includes: a probe configured to be inserted into a bladder, the probe including an optical fiber configured to propagate light, and a light emitter that is provided at a distal end of the optical fiber, the light emitter being configured to emit the light; and a balloon catheter into which the probe is inserted, the balloon catheter being configured to be inserted into the bladder, the balloon catheter including a distal end portion that is to be dilated in the bladder, a wall configured to divide inside of the distal end portion into two regions, and a reflector configured to reflect the light emitted by the light emitter, the reflector being provided on a surface of the wall, the surface facing a region of the two regions, the region being where the light emitter is positioned.

    Light treatment system and light treatment method

    公开(公告)号:US11534621B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-27

    申请号:US17186360

    申请日:2021-02-26

    Abstract: A light treatment system includes: a probe configured to be inserted into a body cavity, the probe including an optical fiber configured to propagate light, and a light emitter that is provided at a distal end of the optical fiber, the emitter being configured to emit the light; a balloon catheter into which the probe is inserted, the balloon catheter including a distal end portion that is to be inserted into the body cavity and that is to be dilated by being supplied with a liquid including air bubbles; and an air bubble generator configured to generate the air bubbles to be included in the liquid and change a property of the air bubbles.

    Endoscope system
    8.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10972675B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-06

    申请号:US16691865

    申请日:2019-11-22

    Abstract: An endoscope system according to the present invention includes: an illumination unit that radiates illumination light onto a subject, the illumination light having a spatially non-uniform intensity distribution including a light section and a dark section in a beam cross section orthogonal to an optical axis; an imaging unit that images an illumination image of the subject irradiated with the illumination light; and a separation processor that generates two separate images from the illumination image. Among intensity values of pixels within the illumination image respectively corresponding to the light section, the dark section, and a section having intermediate intensity between the light section and the dark section, the separation processor generates the two separate images based on at least two of the intensity values.

    Endoscope system
    9.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10863104B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-12-08

    申请号:US16691961

    申请日:2019-11-22

    Abstract: An endoscope system of the present invention includes: a first illumination unit that emits first illumination light for imaging two sets of image information about a subject at different depths; a second illumination unit that emits second illumination light having a wide band covering a visible band from a position different from the position of the first illumination light; an imaging unit that images a first illumination image and a second illumination image of the subject that is illuminated with the first illumination light and the second illumination light; a separation processing unit that separates the two sets of image information from the first illumination image; and a separated-image generating unit that generates two separated images by processing the second illumination image using the two sets of image information.

    Measurement probe and biological optical measurement system

    公开(公告)号:US10149619B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-11

    申请号:US14628652

    申请日:2015-02-23

    Abstract: A measurement probe is configured to be detachably connected to a biological optical measurement apparatus that performs an optical measurement on body tissue. The measurement probe includes an illumination fiber configured to irradiate the body tissue with illumination light, and a plurality of detection fibers configured to detect return light of at least one of the illumination light reflected from the body tissue and the illumination light scattered from the body tissue. On a plane which is away from distal ends of the illumination fiber and the plurality of detection fibers and through which the illumination light and the return light can pass, a detection area of the return light in each of the plurality of detection fibers is included in all of an illumination area of the illumination fiber or inside of the illumination area.

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