Surgery – Truss – Pad
Patent
1987-11-10
1990-01-23
Arnold, Bruce Y.
Surgery
Truss
Pad
350321, 35016213, 350 382, 128 4, 342 64, 358125, 356390, 364822, G02B 2700, G02B 2746
Patent
active
048954314
ABSTRACT:
A method of processing images taken by an endoscope having insertion section, bending section and operation section including a step of entering a first image of an object taken by the endoscope having the bending section situated in a first position, a step of entering a second image taken by the endoscope having the bending section situated in a second position, after moving the bending section into the second position by operating an operation member, the first image being partially overlapped with the second image, a step of detecting a positional relation between the first and second positions by detecting the movement of the bending section, a step of deriving a distance between corresponding points on the first and second images, a step of deriving three dimensional information of the object, and a step of displaying a three dimensional image of the object in accordance with the three dimensional information.
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Badique Eric
Honda Toshio
Kikuchi Susumu
Ohyama Nagaaki
Tsujiuchi Junpei
Arnold Bruce Y.
Ben Loha
Olympus Optical Co,. Ltd.
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