STEREOSCOPIC ILLUMINATION ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM
First Claim
1. A stereoscopic illumination endoscope system comprising:
- an endoscope processor including a light source;
an electronic scope detachably attached to said endoscope processor, said electronic scope having a light guide provided therein, wherein illumination light emitted from said light source is projected onto an object to be observed from a distal end of said electronic scope via said light guide, and wherein said light guide includes a plurality of optical fiber bundles having respective incident-end faces for the illumination light to be incident on and respective emission-end faces for the incident illumination light to be emitted from, said incident-end faces being arranged adjacent to each other, and said emission-end faces being arranged away from each other in a lateral direction thereof; and
an incident light controller which adjusts a quantity and quantity ratio of said illumination light emitted from said light source and incident on said respective incident-end faces, said incident light controller provided between said light source and said incident-end faces.
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Abstract
A stereoscopic illumination endoscope system includes an endoscope processor; an electronic scope detachably attached to the endoscope processor, the electronic scope having a light guide provided therein, wherein the light guide includes a plurality of optical fiber bundles having incident-end faces arranged adjacent to each other and emission-end faces being arranged away from each other in a lateral direction thereof at the distal end; and an incident light controller which adjusts a quantity and quantity ratio of the illumination light emitted from the light source and incident on the respective incident-end faces, the incident light controller provided between the light source and the incident-end faces.
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19 Claims
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1. A stereoscopic illumination endoscope system comprising:
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an endoscope processor including a light source;
an electronic scope detachably attached to said endoscope processor, said electronic scope having a light guide provided therein, wherein illumination light emitted from said light source is projected onto an object to be observed from a distal end of said electronic scope via said light guide, and wherein said light guide includes a plurality of optical fiber bundles having respective incident-end faces for the illumination light to be incident on and respective emission-end faces for the incident illumination light to be emitted from, said incident-end faces being arranged adjacent to each other, and said emission-end faces being arranged away from each other in a lateral direction thereof; and
an incident light controller which adjusts a quantity and quantity ratio of said illumination light emitted from said light source and incident on said respective incident-end faces, said incident light controller provided between said light source and said incident-end faces. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. An electronic scope detachably attached to the endoscope processor comprising:
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a light guide provided therein, wherein illumination light emitted from a light source is projected onto an object to be observed from a distal end of said electronic scope via said light guide, and wherein said light guide includes a plurality of optical fiber bundles having respective incident-end faces for the illumination light to be incident on and respective emission-end faces for the incident illumination light to be emitted from, said incident-end faces being arranged adjacent to each other, and said emission-end faces being arranged away from each other.
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19. An endoscope processor detachably attached to an electronic scope comprising:
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a light source which emits illumination light so as to be incident on an incident end face of a light guide provided in said electronic scope and to emit from a distal end of said light guide;
wherein said light guide includes a plurality of optical fiber bundles having respective incident-end faces for said illumination light to be incident on and respective emission-end faces for said incident illumination light to be emitted from, said incident-end faces being arranged adjacent to each other, and said emission-end faces being arranged away from each other in a lateral direction thereof; and
wherein an incident light controller is provided between said light source and said incident-end faces, wherein said incident light controller adjusts a quantity and quantity ratio of said illumination light emitted from said light source and incident on said respective incident-end faces.
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