Patents by Inventor OLYMPUS CORPORATION

OLYMPUS CORPORATION has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20130162982
    Abstract: A spectroscopic detection device including: a stop in which an aperture is formed; a first and second photodetectors which detect detection light; a collimator which converts the detection light emitted from the stop into substantially parallel light, and emits light to at least one of the first and second photodetectors; a dispersive element which is arranged between the collimator and the first photodetector, and disperses the detection light; a condensing optical system which condenses the detection light dispersed by the dispersive element to the first photodetector; and a wavelength selection filter which is arranged between the collimator and the second photodetector, and allows light in a specified wavelength range to enter the second photodetector. The collimator is configured so that the focal distance for the detection light emitted to the first photodetector may be different from the focal distance for the detection light emitted to the second photodetector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20130162881
    Abstract: An imaging device includes an image data interface unit that outputs the first image data according to a pixel signal from a solid-state imaging device, an image data reading unit that reads image data from a storage unit and outputs the read image data as second image data, an image synthesizing unit that outputs third image data in which the first image data is synthesized with the second image data, an evaluation value generating unit that generates an evaluation value based on image data, a first image data selecting unit that inputs selected image data to the evaluation value generating unit, an image data writing unit that stores input image data in the storage unit via the data bus, a second image data selecting unit that inputs selected image data to the image data writing unit, and a display unit that displays an image corresponding to the third image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Olympus Corporation
  • Publication number: 20130155479
    Abstract: Provided is an image-capturing apparatus including a connecting portion having an opening through which a beam coming from an observation device is incident; an optical-path switching portion that switches an optical path of the beam incident along an incident optical axis; image-capturing devices that capture an image of the beam passing along the switched optical path. A first image-capturing device is provided so as to be rotatable about an axis parallel to the central axis thereof. The optical-path switching portion is provided so as to be pivotable such that a reflecting surface thereof is disposed on or retracted from the incident optical axis. When the reflecting surface is retracted, the beam is incident on a second image-capturing device. When the reflecting surface is disposed, the beam is reflected by the reflecting surface and incident on at least the first image-capturing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20130155203
    Abstract: An image processing system includes an acquisition unit, a candidate value estimation unit, a cutoff frequency acquisition unit and a candidate value modification unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire an image of a sample taken via an optical system. The candidate value estimation unit is configured to estimate a candidate value of a 3D shape of the sample based on the image. The cutoff frequency acquisition unit is configured to acquire a cutoff frequency of the optical system based on information of the optical system. The candidate value modification unit is configured to perform at least one of data correction and data interpolation for the candidate value based on the cutoff frequency and calculate a modified candidate value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20130155272
    Abstract: An image processing device includes an image acquisition section, a resampling section, an interpolation section, and an estimation section. The image acquisition section alternately acquires pixel-sum values of a first summation unit group and a second summation unit group in each frame of a plurality of frames. The resampling section calculates a resampling value in the each frame. The interpolation section determines whether or not to interpolate the pixel-sum value that is not acquired in a target frame based on the pixel-sum value acquired in the frame that precedes or follows the target frame based on a time-series change in the resampling value. The estimation section estimates pixel values based on the pixel-sum values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Olympus Corporation
  • Publication number: 20130155219
    Abstract: Optimal shading correction is achieved even when exposure times are different. An apparatus includes a section that stores a ? property of an image pickup device, a section that stores a shading pattern acquired by the image pickup device, and a first exposure time, a section that stores image data acquired by the image pickup device and a second exposure time, a section that calculates a pre-correction pattern, based on the stored shading pattern and the stored ? property, a section that calculates a revised pattern by performing ? correction for the calculated pre-correction pattern after multiplying the calculated pre-correction pattern by a ratio of the second exposure time to the first exposure time, and a section that performs shading correction for the stored image data by using the calculated revised pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20130150877
    Abstract: Provided is a treatment instrument including a guide member with a tip surface to be pressed against an outer surface of a pericardium; a pericardium fixing member including at least one needle-shaped portion having a sharp pointed end extending diagonally forward along a circumferential direction at a tip of a cylinder-shaped body rotatable around the axis thereof; a perforating member for forming a through-hole for a guide wire in the pericardium to which the pericardium fixing member is fixed; and a pointed end position restricting portion for restricting the position of the pointed end in a direction of the axis relative to the tip surface of the guide member at a location where the pointed end of the pericardium fixing member does not reach the outer surface of a heart while the tip surface of the guide member is pressed against the outer surface of the pericardium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2013
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20130147941
    Abstract: Repeatability of control items is ensured by improving the precision of time control, and control details for the control items can be changed even when observation is underway. Provided is a laser-scanning microscope system including a microscope apparatus that scans a specimen surface with laser light from a laser light source by using a scanner; a hardware sequencer that controls the microscope apparatus so as to execute a control item that is set in an application program in correspondence with a time axis; and a software sequencer that manages control details for the control item that is set in the application program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20130150936
    Abstract: Provided is a nerve stimulating device with which unwanted bacteria, etc. are prevented from entering a body, which serves to reduce the risk of infection. The nerve stimulating device includes a stent that is indwelled inside the body, a receiving coil that is provided in the stent and that receives energy from outside the body, and stimulating electrodes that are provided in the stent and that convert the energy received by the receiving coil into electric power at the timing at which the receiving coil receives the energy and passively output the electric power as nerve stimulating pulses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20130150848
    Abstract: A surgical treatment system include a pair of holding members holding a living tissue and a plurality of heater members disposed on at least one of the holding members. The surgical treatment system further includes a resistance pattern which transfer heat to the living tissue, a pair of electrodes disposed at opposite ends of the resistance pattern to generate the heat based on a energy to supply the heat to the resistance pattern, wires each connecting one of the heater members to another heater member and heater member energization line connected to the wire and to a energy source to supply the energy from the energy source to the electrodes via the wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Olympus Corporation
  • Publication number: 20130147985
    Abstract: An image processing device includes an image acquisition section that acquires pixel-sum values of a first summation unit group when summation units are classified into the first summation unit group and a second summation unit group, a candidate value generation section that generates a plurality of candidate values for the pixel-sum values of the second summation unit group, a determination section that performs a determination process that determines the pixel-sum values of the second summation unit group based on the pixel-sum values of the first summation unit group and the plurality of candidate values, and an estimation section that estimates pixel values of pixels included in the summation units based on the pixel-sum values of the first summation unit group and the pixel-sum values of the second summation unit group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20130146751
    Abstract: A time detection circuit may include: a delay unit configured to have a plurality of delay units, each of which delays and outputs an input signal, and start an operation at a first timing relating to an input of a first pulse; a latch unit configured to latch logic states of the plurality of delay units; a count unit configured to perform a count operation based on a clock output from one of the plurality of delay units; a count latch unit configured to latch a state of the count unit; and a latch control unit configured to enable the latch unit at a second timing relating to an input of a second pulse and cause the latch unit and the count latch unit to execute a latch at a third timing at which a predetermined time has elapsed from the second timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20130141618
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes a pixel unit in which pixels each including a photoelectric conversion element and a signal accumulation circuit are arranged in a matrix shape and a plurality of pixels in a range of two or more rows form the same group, and a control unit that performs control to associate a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements that are targets from which signals are read in the same group with a plurality of signal accumulation circuits in the same group of an array having a number of rows smaller than a number of rows in an array of the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, transfer signals generated by the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements to the signal accumulation circuits associated with the respective photoelectric conversion elements, and output the signals accumulated in the signal accumulation circuits for each row.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20130144126
    Abstract: An endoscope has a helical elastic tube constituting a flexible tubular part. The helical elastic tube comprises a dense coil having an initial tension given to at least one part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Olympus Corporation
  • Publication number: 20130144120
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device and an endoscope device can correct characteristics of a digital signal output from an AD conversion unit with respect to a pixel signal input to an AD conversion unit with higher precision even when a dynamic range of a pixel signal is changed. A correction unit corrects the digital signal output from the AD conversion unit based on a correction function using the digital signal output from the AD conversion as a variable so as to correct the characteristics of the digital signal output from the AD conversion unit with respect to the pixel signal input to the AD conversion unit. A correction method changing unit changes an order of a variable between first and other orders in the correction function according to a change in a dynamic range of the pixel signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20130141620
    Abstract: A solid-state image pickup device in which a first substrate and a second substrate including circuit elements forming pixels and disposed therein are electrically connected by a connection unit, may include an averaging circuit that averages signals accumulated in signal accumulation circuits respectively included in the two or more pixels that are pixels included in the same group and are averaging targets, and an output circuit that outputs the averaged signals from the pixels. The pixels may be classified into a plurality of groups and each group may include the plurality of pixels. The pixels may include photoelectric conversion elements disposed in the first substrate, and the signal accumulation circuits that are disposed in the second substrate and accumulate signals that are generated by the photoelectric conversion elements and are input via the connection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20130140434
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device is capable of suppressing as much as possible an increase in power consumption of a low-frequency noise removing process. A pixel unit includes pixels outputting pixel signals corresponding to an amount of incident light and correction pixels outputting correction pixel signals corresponding to a correction reference voltage. An AD conversion circuit includes a delay circuit, to which a plurality of delay elements are connected, and outputs a digital signal corresponding to the number of delay elements through which a pulse signal passes when the pulse signal passes through the number of delay elements corresponding to a level of the pixel signal or the correction pixel signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: OLYMPUS CORPORATION, DENSO CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20130134296
    Abstract: An AD conversion circuit includes a reference signal generation unit, which generates a reference signal, a comparison unit, which ends a comparison process at a timing at which the reference signal has satisfied a predetermined condition with respect to the analog signal, a first path in which a signal is transferred through each of n delay units, a clock signal generation unit, which outputs a lower-order phase signal, a latch unit, which latches the lower-order phase signal, a higher-order count unit including a first counter circuit, which acquires a higher-order count value by performing a count operation using a signal output from any one of the delay units, a calculation unit, which generates a lower-order count signal, and a lower-order count unit, which acquires a lower-order count value by performing the count operation using the lower-order count signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Olympus Corporation
  • Publication number: 20130134301
    Abstract: The invention provides a prism optical system comprising at least four optical surfaces, each having optical functions. At least two of the four optical surfaces are each a rotationally asymmetric surface, and one of two surfaces on which light is incident or from which light exits out is capable of one transmission and two internal reflections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Olympus Corporation
  • Publication number: 20130133190
    Abstract: A stacked mounting structure and a method of manufacturing stacked mounting structure are provided. The stacked mounting structure includes a plurality of members provided with a mounting area which is necessary for installing and operating components to be mounted on at least one principal surface, and an area for connections for signal transfer for operating the components to be mounted, and an electroconductive member which is disposed on the area for connections between the mutually facing members, and a cross section of the electroconductive member is same as or smaller than the area for connections, and an end portion of the electroconductive member is extended from a principal surface of one member up to a principal surface of the other member, and a height of the electroconductive member regulates a distance of the mounting area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Olympus Corporation