Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100274090 | ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM, ENDOSCOPE, AND DRIVING METHOD - An endoscope includes an elongated tube. An objective lens system is disposed in the elongated tube, for passing image light from an object. A fiber optic image guide includes plural optical fibers bundled together, has a distal tip, is inserted through the elongated tube, for transmitting the image light focused on the distal tip by the objective lens system in a proximal direction. A displacing device displaces the distal tip laterally and periodically upon receiving entry of the image light being focused by use of a piezoelectric actuator positioned outside the distal tip. A support casing supports the distal tip inserted therein, keeps the distal tip shiftable on the displacing device, and transmits force of the piezoelectric actuator disposed outside to the fiber optic image guide. | 10-28-2010 |
20100317923 | ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM, ENDOSCOPE, AND DRIVING METHOD - An endoscope includes an elongated tube. An objective lens system is disposed in the elongated tube, for passing image light from an object. A fiber optic image guide includes plural optical fibers bundled together, has a distal tip, is inserted through the elongated tube, for transmitting the image light focused on the distal tip by the objective lens system in a proximal direction. A displacing device displaces the distal tip laterally and periodically upon receiving entry of the image light being focused by use of a piezoelectric actuator positioned outside the distal tip. An image sensor creates images in plural set positions of the distal tip. First to fourth images among the plural images created consecutively are combined to form a first synthesized image. Then second to fifth images among the plural images without use of the first image are combined to form a second synthesized image. | 12-16-2010 |
20110034768 | ENDOSCOPE HAVING OPTICAL FIBERS - An endoscope for imaging of an object in a body cavity by receiving image light on an image sensor is provided. In an elongated tube for entry in the body cavity, an objective lens system is incorporated for receiving the image light from the object. A fiber optic image guide includes plural bundled optical fibers and a distal tip, is inserted in the elongated tube, for transmitting the image light focused on the distal tip by the objective lens system. A piezoelectric actuator is positioned on the distal tip, for displacing the distal tip periodically. The image sensor detects the image light from the fiber optic image guide for plural times in synchronism with the displacement for forming a synthesized image. An anchoring device anchors the elongated tube partially on a wall of the body cavity, to stabilize the elongated tube relative to the image light. | 02-10-2011 |
20110054252 | ENDOSCOPE HAVING OPTICAL FIBERS - An endoscope for image pickup of an object by receiving image light with an image sensor includes an elongated tube. A fiber optic image guide includes a plurality of optical fibers being bundled, and has a distal tip, is inserted through the elongated tube, for transmitting the image light focused on the distal tip by an objective lens system in a proximal direction. A piezoelectric actuator is disposed on an outer side of the fiber optic image guide, for periodically displacing the distal tip, wherein the image sensor picks up the image light from the fiber optic image guide for plural times in synchronism with displacement, to form one synthesized image. A hood device is mounted on a head assembly of the elongated tube, and shiftable between a closed position for covering a distal end face of the head assembly and an open position for revealing the distal end face. | 03-03-2011 |
20120265016 | ENDOSCOPE - An endoscope has an insertion part including a bending part bending with a remote operation and a soft part connected to the bending part, the insertion part having: a first outer coat with an integral structure provided in at least part of the soft part and in the bending part; and a second outer coat with which the first outer coat is coated in the soft part only. | 10-18-2012 |
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20090021656 | EXPOSURE METHOD AND APPARATUS - When an image of a two-dimensional pattern is formed on a photosensitive material by performing spatial light modulation on light emitted from a light source by a spatial light modulation means including a multiplicity of arranged pixel units and by forming an image by a second imaging optical system after forming an image of each of light beams corresponding to the pixel units, on which the spatial light modulation has been performed, by a first imaging optical system, the imaging position of each of light beams is controlled separately for each of the light beams. Accordingly, the image of the two-dimensional pattern formed on the photosensitive material coincides with an intended two-dimensional pattern. | 01-22-2009 |
20090074401 | IMAGE RECORDING PROCESSING CIRCUIT, IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS AND IMAGE RECORDING METHOD USING IMAGE RECORDING PROCESSING CIRCUIT - Mirror sequential data supplied from an RIP are temporarily stored as divided data in memory banks of an intermediate memory. Thereafter, the stored mirror sequential data are read in blocks. Then, a transposition processor transposes a matrix of the mirror sequential data into frame sequential data, and supplies the frame sequential data to a DMD controller. | 03-19-2009 |
20090201482 | Exposure Method and Apparatus - A photosensitive material (for example, a glass substrate coated with a photoresist) is exposed to light in a predetermined pattern by illuminating the photosensitive material with exposure light by an exposure head which emits light that has been modulated by a spatial light modulation device. The exposure head and the photosensitive material are moved in a sub-scan direction at least twice for each photosensitive material. The operation of the spatial light modulation device is controlled in each of sub-scan movements to form an exposed area, of which the exposure amount is at least at two different levels, in the photosensitive material. | 08-13-2009 |