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8183510 Image sensor with buried self aligned focusing element  
An image sensor includes an optical sensor region, a stack of dielectric and metal layers, and an embedded layer. The optical sensor is disposed within a semiconductor substrate. The stack of...
8165424 Method and device for video transformations  
A system and method use a video transform to produce an intermediate pixel transform file representative of a video effect. The intermediate pixel transform file is applied to a frame of one or...
8130264 Magnification observation apparatus and method for creating high tone image file  
A high tone image is saved in a versatile image file format to enhance usability. There are provided an imaging unit that images an original image having a predetermined dynamic range, which is a...
8120649 Microscope system  
A microscope system having a selectively mountable optical element, comprises: a first noncontact type storage medium, being equipped in the optical element, for enabling a noncontact readout of...
8092377 Endoscope light intensity controller  
An endoscope device includes an optical coupler, an image pickup module, a second bundle of optical fibers, a photodetector and an image processing module. The optical coupler has an input end...
8064683 Vision-controlled system and method thereof  
A vision-controlled system and method thereof for detecting changes in a monitoring environment are disclosed. The system includes an image-capturing device for capturing an image; an image...
8035684 Image-signal generating apparatus  
An image-signal generating apparatus comprises a solid-state image pickup device-equivalent load circuit unit including a load approximately equivalent to a solid-state image pickup device such as...
7990587 Electronic endoscope having an apparatus for controlling a shading member  
An electronic endoscope has a video-scope with an image sensor, a light source, a signal reading processor, a shading member, a driver, and a driving controller. The signal reading processor...
7986342 Multi-purpose imaging apparatus and adaptors therefor  
Provided is a multi-purpose imaging apparatus (10) comprising a body (14) and imaging means (36) housed within the body (14). The body (14) is adapted to releasably engage an adaptor (12). The...
7961214 Automatic gain control for a confocal imaging system  
Automatic gain control is provided for a confocal imaging system to improve the quality of images produced by the system. The confocal imaging system utilizes an illumination source, such as a...
7894882 Miniature ingestible capsule  
A miniature ingestible capsule has multiple therapeutic or diagnostic operations that can be performed. These functions are controlled by a combination of an outside control, a pose beacon and...
7844296 Video mobile terminal  
A mobile terminal includes a camera configured to obtain first image information, and a receiving unit configured to receive second image information from outside. A display unit is configured to...
7762947 Capsule endoscope and capsule endoscope system  
A capsule endoscope, which is inserted into a subject and picking up an image inside the subject, includes an illuminating unit that illuminates an interior surface of the subject with illuminating...
7634116 Information processing device  
The present invention provides an information processing apparatus that can improve immediacy. The information processing apparatus emits a plurality of lights whose wavelengths are different from...
7598983 Control of image output using image processing control data  
The present invention makes an image data supplier such as an image shooting apparatus controllable of image processing that is performed in an image output apparatus according to image data for...
7589306 Image sensor with buried self aligned focusing element  
An image sensor includes an optical sensor region, a stack of dielectric and metal layers, and a buried focusing layer. The optical sensor is disposed within a semiconductor substrate. The stack of...
7573499 Endoscope apparatus for obtaining properly dimmed observation images  
A CCD driver circuit adjusts and supplies pulse-type signals to a CCD in order to adjust the sensitivity of the CCD. A metering circuit meters a signal output from the CCD. A sensitivity control...
7559892 Medical wireless imaging device  
A medical wireless imaging device comprises an image sensor, a transmitter, a receiving device, and a plurality of light sources. The transmitter transmits data through a wireless communication...
7551196 Endoscope apparatus  
A drive signal from an SSG drives a CCD through a delay circuit and the like. An imaging signal from the CCD is converted to a video signal in a CDS circuit, which is driven by a sample hold signal...
7518632 Endoscope device  
An endoscope device including an insertion part including an observation optical system and a measuring optical system, wherein the endoscope device is provided with a characteristic value...
7515953 Techniques for identifying molecular structures and treating cell types lining a body lumen using fluorescence  
Techniques for detecting fluorescence emitted by molecular constituents in a wall of a body lumen include introducing an autonomous solid support into the body lumen. Cells in a lumen wall of the...
7321385 Surgical lighting control and video system  
A surgical light system (10) includes a lighthead (44) coupled to a suspension arm (41′) adapted for mounting to a surface (14) of a surgical room. A bulb (130) is disposed in the lighthead. A p...
7232410 Adjusting method for endoscope systems  
An adjusting method for endoscope systems comprises a first adjusting step, a second light adjusting step and a storing step. The first adjusting step compares video signals, which are produced...
7221388 Endoscope image sensing method and apparatus  
This invention relates to an endoscope image sensing apparatus which can switch suitable color matrixes in accordance with the type of observation region, the type of light source used, or the...
7116352 Capsule  
System for producing a stereoscopic image of an object, and displaying the stereoscopic image, the system including a capsule and a control unit, the capsule including a sensor assembly, a...
7108687 Medical system  
An endoscope surgery system is provided, as a medical system, to be easily used by a user who is not used to the operation. An endoscope operation system includes a trolley and a remote controller....
6980227 Electronic endoscope with light-amount adjustment apparatus  
An electronic endoscope has a video-scope with an image sensor and a video-processor. The video-scope has an objective lens and an illuminating lens in a tip portion. Further, the electronic...
6734894 Electronic-endoscope light quantity controlling apparatus  
The present invention is an electronic-endoscope apparatus for compensating for lack of light quantity caused by a delayed response from a light shielding mechanism when an all-pixel reading system...
6734893 Endoscopy illumination system for stroboscopy  
An endoscopy illumination system with a light-emitting element placed at the tip of an endoscope is disclosed. Pulses of light illuminate moving parts of the human body, enabling an observer to...
6707485 Light control system for electronic endoscopes  
The present invention relates to a light control system for electronic endoscopes which provides sufficiently bright images during observation of distant objects, allows stable light control during...
6669628 Electronic endoscope system enabling different type of electronic endoscope to be used  
When a new processor is connected to an old electronic endoscope provided with a memory storing B data for image processing specific to the scope, white balance control is carried out by a...
6518998 Image quality by automatically changing the black level of a video signal  
A video camera and imaging system having signal processing circuitry configured to change the black level (pedestal) of a video signal in response to comparing an overall system gain (for instance,...
6475141 Electronic endoscope device using separated area photometry  
In an electronic endoscope, and a memory which contains image pickup area information including size and light distribution characteristics are provided, and in a processor device to which this...
6464633 Light source device for endoscope using DMD  
A larger number of micromirrors arranged on an illumination optical path of a lamp in a light source device for supplying an illumination light to an endoscope and by using a silicon chip as a base...
6421078 Electronic endoscope system  
An electronic endoscope system comprises an electronic endoscope unit equipped with a solid state image pickup element for providing electric signals of an object and a processing unit for...
6413207 Electronic endoscope apparatus  
The present application relates to an electronic endoscope apparatus for forming a preferable static image by controlling blurring of an image at the time of picking up the image by using a...
6141037 Video camera system and related method  
A video camera system is provided in which the camera head is powered at least in part by electrical energy converted from optical energy provided by a light source. In one implementation,...
6100920 Video signal compensator for compensating differential picture brightness of an optical image due to uneven illumination and method  
A video signal compensator and method for compensating for differential picture brightness of an optical image due to uneven illumination is shown. The video signal compensator includes a device...
6002425 All pixels read type electronic endoscope system  
This all pixels read type electronic endoscope system is to read out all the pixels obtained by one exposure in an image pickup device, thereby to improve the picture quality. In this system, a CCD...
5929900 Signal processor circuit for endoscope systems of all-pixels readout type  
A signal processor circuit which stabilizes a clamp processing of black levels even in an endoscope system of an all-pixels readout type and prevents image qualities from being degraded at a stage...
5894322 Endoscope system with improved controller  
An endoscope system comprises a plurality of endoscope components including at least one endoscope light source apparatus for supplying illumination light to an endoscope and at least one video...
5812187 Electronic endoscope apparatus  
An electronic endoscope apparatus is of a field-sequential imaging type, comprising an illuminating unit for illuminating an object by sequentially emitting color illumination rays with a plurality...
5608451 Endoscope apparatus  
An endoscope apparatus includes an optical system for forming an image of an object; a solid-state image sensor for receiving the image formed by the optical system; an illuminating device for...
5475420 Video imaging system with image processing optimized for small-diameter endoscopes  
An output video signal is derived from an input video signal generated by an image sensor in response to an image formed on only part of the image sensor. The output video signal is derived in...
5331949 Endoscope having illuminance ratio adjusting device between moving and still picture images  
An endoscope in which moving and still picture image pickup operations are alternatively carried out, and a light source emits either a continuous light or a pulsed light in the moving or still...
5237403 Light source system for endoscope  
A condenser lens is provided between a light source and the incident end of an illumination light guide, and at least one pair of plane-parallel plates are disposed on the illumination light path...
5131381 Apparatus for automatically regulating the supply of light to an endoscope  
An apparatus for automatically regulating a light source for providing light for illuminating an object viewed by means of an endoscope equipped with a video camera, there is provided a signal...
5091779 Automatic light adjustment means for an endoscope  
Apparatus for adjusting the quantity of light emitted by a light source for illuminating an object under examination by means of an endoscope fitted with a video camera, comprises a signal...
4969034 Method of signal enhancement  
A video system suitable for use in an endoscope/borescope and includes keyboard actuated circuits for dynamically controlling analog to digital converters to minimize noise interference and...
4967269 Endoscope automatic light control apparatus and endoscope apparatus making use of the same  
An endoscope automatic light control apparatus comprises an automatic light control apparatus for controlling the quantity of light incident to an imaging apparatus for imaging an endoscopic image...
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