Endoscope apparatus

• US 20060178561A1
• Filed: 02/03/2006
• Published: 08/10/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/07/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Inventors: Ogawa, Kiyotomi, Nakano, Sumito, Obata, Mitsuo
• Application Number:
  US11/346,786
• Publication Number:
  US 20060178561A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/117
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00193 adapted for stereoscopic vision
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 23/2476 Non-optical details, e.g. housings, mountings, supports

Abstract

A measuring endoscope apparatus captures a target of measurement, generates an original image, and performs a measurement based on the position of the measurement point on the original image. The apparatus can easily specify the measurement point with high precision, and realize high precision measurement. For example, the measurement point by a re-sampling image generated by moving sampling points by a spacing smaller than a pixel spacing of the original image obtained by capturing a target of measurement.

Claims

1. A measuring endoscope apparatus having an original image acquisition unit for acquiring an image by sampling a captured target in a pixel unit as an original image, and a re-sampling image generation unit for generating an image by re-sampling the original image at a desired position on all or a part of the area of the original image, comprising:

a sampling point travel unit moving sampling points corresponding to the pixels in all or a part of area of the original image in a unit finer than pixel spacing of the original image in the re-sampling image generation unit;

a measurement point position specification unit specifying a position of a measurement point on an original image in the unit finer than the pixel spacing of the original image by moving the sampling points to a desired position by the sampling point travel unit; and

a measurement unit performing a measurement based on the position of the specified measurement point in a unit finer than the pixel spacing of the original image.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a sampling point travel image generation unit generating an image obtained by moving sampling points by the sampling point travel unit;

an enlarged image generation unit generating an enlarged image by enlarging a sampling point travel image;

an enlarged image display unit displaying an enlarged image; and

a measurement point position specification unit specifying a position of a measurement point on an enlarged image.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising

a sampling point travel amount unit specification unit specifying a unit of an amount of travel of sampling points moved by the sampling point travel unit.

4. The apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising

a filter unit performing a filtering process on an enlarged image displayed on the enlarged image display unit.