IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS

• Main Authors: KUTSUMA YUJI, NAKAGAWA HIROHITO, SUZUKI TATSUHIKO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 08.06.2017
• Subjects: ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USINGWAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FORPROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM; CINEMATOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; IDENTIFICATION; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS; OPTICS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; SURGERY

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image processing apparatus capable of reducing a burden of an observer when using an endoscope for observing the inside of a subject with 3D images, an endoscope system, and a control method of the image processing apparatus.SOLUTION: The image processing apparatus acquires a left-eye image signal and a right-eye image signal having mutually parallaxes and performs image processing. The image processing apparatus includes: a detection part for detecting a scene having a large difference between the left-eye image and the right-eye image on the basis of the left-eye image signal and right-eye image signal; and a video signal generation part that, when the detection part detect no scene having the large difference between the left-eye image and the right-eye image, generates a 3D video signal and, when the detection part detects the scene having the large difference between the left-eye image and the right-eye image, generates a 2D video signal.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】３Ｄ画像で被検体内を観察する内視鏡を用いる際の観察者への負担を低減することができる画像処理装置、内視鏡システム、及び画像処理装置の制御方法を提供すること。【解決手段】画像処理装置は、互いに視差を有する左眼映像信号と右眼映像信号とを取得して画像処理を行う画像処理装置であって、前記左眼映像信号及び前記右眼映像信号に基づいて、左眼画像と右眼画像との差が大きいシーンを検出する検出部と、前記検出部によって前記左眼画像と前記右眼画像との差が大きいシーンが検出されない場合に３Ｄ映像信号を生成し、前記検出部によって前記左眼画像と前記右眼画像との差が大きいシーンが検出された場合に２Ｄ映像信号を生成する映像信号生成部と、を備える。【選択図】図１