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YCBCR pulsed illumination scheme in a light deficient environment

  • US 10,277,875 B2
  • Filed: 09/11/2017
  • Issued: 04/30/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A digital imaging method for use with an endoscope in ambient light deficient environments comprising:

  • actuating an emitter to emit a pulse of a wavelength of electromagnetic radiation to cause illumination within the light deficient environment;

    wherein the emitter comprises a plurality of sources that each emits a pulse of a portion of electromagnetic spectrum;

    pulsing said emitter at a predetermined interval;

    sensing reflected electromagnetic radiation from said pulse with a pixel array of an imaging sensor;

    wherein said pixel array is actuated at a sensing interval that corresponds to the pulse interval of said emitter; and

    synchronizing the emitter and the imaging sensor so as to produce a plurality of image frames wherein the plurality of image frames comprises a luminance frame comprising luminance image data and a chrominance frame comprising a modulated ChromaRed pulse and a modulated ChromaBlue pulse that are combined to form a color image, wherein a first buffer stores luminance modulated ChromaRed data and a second buffer stores the luminance modulated ChromaRed data and the luminance modulated ChromaBlue data, and wherein forming the color image includes subtracting luminance modulated ChromaRed data in the first buffer from luminance modulated ChromaBlue data in the second buffer.

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