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ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM, ENDOSCOPE, AND DRIVING METHOD

  • US 20100274082A1
  • Filed: 04/27/2010
  • Published: 10/28/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2009
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. An endoscope system comprising:

  • an objective lens system, disposed in an elongated tube of an endoscope, for passing image light from an object;

    a fiber optic image guide, including plural optical fibers bundled together, having a distal tip, inserted through said elongated tube, for transmitting said image light focused on said distal tip by said objective lens system in a proximal direction;

    an image sensor for detecting said image light from said fiber optic image guide;

    a displacing device for displacing said distal tip laterally and periodically upon receiving entry of said image light being focused;

    a sync control unit for driving said image sensor for detecting said image light for plural times in synchronism with displacement of said displacing device, and controlling said image sensor and said displacing device to create plural images in plural set positions of said distal tip relative to said image light being focused;

    an image synthesizing unit for combining said plural images according to information of a relative position of said image light transmitted respectively by said optical fibers to pixels of said image sensor on an image pickup surface thereof, and according to a shift amount of said displacement of said distal tip with said displacing device, to form one synthesized image.

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