ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM

• US 20160338575A1
• Filed: 08/01/2016
• Published: 11/24/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/14/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Inventors: Honda, Kazuki, Takahashi, Takeshi, Kura, Yasuhito
• Application Number:
  US15/224,923
• Publication Number:
  US 20160338575A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00009 of image signals during a use of endoscope
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00045 Display arrangement
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/0014 Fastening element for attaching accessories to the outside of an endoscope, e.g. clips, clamps or bands
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00181 for multiple fixed viewing angles A61B1/00193 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00193 adapted for stereoscopic vision
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00194 adapted for three-dimensional imaging
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/0051 with controlled bending of insertion part
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/015 Control of fluid supply or evacuation
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/018 for receiving instruments
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/05 characterised by the image sensor, e.g. camera, being in the distal end portion
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/12 with cooling or rinsing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 23/24 Instruments or systems for viewing the inside of hollow bodies, e.g. fibrescopes
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 23/2423 of the distal end
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 23/2484 Arrangements in relation to a camera or imaging device processing or control of video signals generated by an endoscope H04N23/60, H04N23/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/20112 Image segmentation details
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/047 Fisheye or wide-angle transformations
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/20 Analysis of motion motion estimation for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals H04N19/43, H04N19/51
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/60 Analysis of geometric attributes
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/73 using feature-based methods
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/50 Constructional details
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/51 : Housings
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/63 : by using electronic viewfinders
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/2628 : Alteration of picture size, shape, position or orientation, e.g. zooming, rotation, rolling, perspective, translation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/265 : Mixing

Abstract

An endoscope system is provided with an insertion portion, a direct-view observation window, a side-view observation window, a video processor, an image processing section configured to remove, overlapping regions between the first image and the plurality of second images and match lengths of sides of the plurality of second images to a length of a side of the first image, and a region of interest detection section configured to detect a region of interest from the plurality of second images. The image processing section performs image processing of canceling the processing of increasing the width of the image region as the distance from the region adjacent to the first image increases for only the second image from which the region of interest is detected among the plurality of second images according to a result of the detection conducted by the region of interest detection section.

Claims

1. An endoscope system comprising:

an insertion portion configured to be inserted into an object;

a first object image acquisition section provided in the insertion portion and configured to acquire a first object image from a first region of the object;

a second object image acquisition section provided in the insertion portion and configured to acquire a plurality of second object images from a second region of the object which is at least partially different from the first region;

an image signal generation section configured to generate a first image signal from the first object image and generate a plurality of second image signals from the plurality of second object images;

an image processing section configured to arrange the plurality of second images so as to be adjacent to the first image, remove, when performing image processing so that widths of image regions of the plurality of second images increase in a fan-shape as a distance from a region adjacent to the first image increases in a positional relationship with the first image and displaying the images on a display section configured to display images, overlapping regions between the first image and the plurality of second images and match lengths of sides of the plurality of second images to a length of a side of the first image; and

a region of interest detection section configured to detect a region of interest from the plurality of second images,

wherein the image processing section performs image processing of canceling the processing of increasing the width of the image region as the distance from the region adjacent to the first image increases for only the second image from which the region of interest is detected among the plurality of second images according to a result of the detection conducted by the region of interest detection section.

2. The endoscope system according to claim 1, wherein the image processing section performs image processing of canceling a display mode in which the width of the image region increases as the distance from the region adjacent to the first image increases for the entire second image in which the region of interest including a specified predetermined region exists among the plurality of second object images.

3. The endoscope system according to claim 1, wherein the image processing section performs image processing of displaying an enlarged view of the region of interest by canceling a display mode in which the width of the region increases as the distance from the region adjacent to the first image of the second object image increases among the plurality of second images.

4. The endoscope system according to claim 1, further comprising a display section configured to display the first image and the plurality of second images outputted from the image processing section.

5. The endoscope system according to claim 4, wherein the image processing section causes the display section to display the first image arranged at a center and the plurality of second images arranged in regions including at least both sides of the first image.

6. The endoscope system according to claim 1,

wherein the first object image is an object image in the first region including a forward direction of the insertion portion substantially parallel to a longitudinal direction of the insertion portion,

the plurality of second object images are object images in the second region including a sideward direction of the insertion portion in a plurality of directions crossing the longitudinal direction of the insertion portion,

the first object image acquisition section is a forward image acquisition section configured to acquire an object image of the first region, and

the second object image acquisition section is a sideward image acquisition section configured to acquire an object image of the second region.

7. The endoscope system according to claim 4,

wherein the second object image acquisition section is arranged in plurality at substantially equal angles in a circumferential direction of the insertion portion, and

the display section displays the first image arranged at a center and the plurality of second images arranged at substantially equal angles in a circumferential direction of the first image.

8. The endoscope system according to claim 6,

wherein the first object image acquisition section is arranged at a distal end portion in the longitudinal direction of the insertion portion in a direction in which the insertion portion is inserted,

the second object image acquisition section is arranged on a side face of the insertion portion in a circumferential direction of the insertion portion, and

a first image pickup section configured to photoelectrically convert the first object image from the first object image acquisition section and a second image pickup section configured to photoelectrically convert the plurality of second object images from the second object image acquisition section are provided separately and the first image pickup section and the second image pickup section are electrically connected to the image signal generation section.