Abstract: Provided is an endoscope system including an endoscope which includes an illumination optical system having a fluorescent substance and an imaging optical system having an imaging element; and a control device which is connected to the endoscope. The control device includes a light source unit having a semiconductor light emitting element generating excitation light used to excite the fluorescent substance, a storage section storing predetermined color correction information, and an image processing section creating captured image data by performing a calculation process on an image signal output from the imaging element on the basis of the color correction information. At least one of optical characteristics of the fluorescent substance and the semiconductor light emitting element is detected, and the color correction information stored in the storage section is corrected on the basis of the detected optical characteristic.

Abstract: An endoscope apparatus includes: an endoscope which includes an imaging optical system and an illumination optical system; and a control unit which includes light source units and connected to the endoscope and supplying at least excitation light to the illumination optical system, and an image processing section correcting an image signal output from the imaging element on the basis of a predetermined color correction table. The control unit performs a calibration process in such a manner that an image of a color chart having a plurality of color patches with known chromaticity values is captured by an imaging element, chromaticity for each of the plurality of color patches is obtained from an imaging signal of the color chart, and the contents of the color correction table are changed.

Abstract: White light and excitation light are applied to an internal body part. An electronic endoscope captures a normal image of the internal body part irradiated with the white light, and a special image of autofluorescence emitted from living body tissue of the internal body part irradiated with the excitation light. An object distance detector detects an object distance between a CCD and an inspection area of the internal body part based on the normal image. A binning processing section applies a binning process to the special image. There are two types of binning processes, i.e. an intensity adjustment process and a resolution adjustment process. In the intensity adjustment process, the binning number is increased with increase in the object distance. In the resolution adjustment process, the binning number is decreased with increase in the object distance. Which process to perform is determined by operation on a processing type selector.

Abstract: A data creating apparatus extracts meta data about a topic from a document, the meta data including at least one linguistic expression about a behavior, a plurality of the linguistic expressions having a first modification relation. The data creating apparatus converts the linguistic expressions included in the behavioral meta data into each class, based on a behavior ontology that is expressed by a graph where the linguistic expression about a behavior is an instance and a concept of the instance is a class to create behavior map data that represents each of the classes converted and also representing a second modification relation among the classes as a link.

Abstract: In a tracing mode of an electronic endoscope system, a target designating frame is displayed on a monitor to enable designating a tracing target in an endoscopic image captured from an interior of a body cavity illuminated with a broadband light. After the tracing target is designated, narrowband rays of different wavelength ranges from each other are sequentially projected into the body cavity, to acquire biological information on the designated tracing target from image signals obtained under these narrowband rays. On the basis of the biological information on the tracing target, an area corresponding to the tracing target is detected from endoscopic images newly captured after the designation of the tracing target.

Abstract: In a search mode of an electronic endoscope system, ordinary light images and special light images are captured from a body cavity respectively under white light and special light. Simultaneously, biological information on the body cavity is acquired from image signals obtained under the special light. The ordinary and special light images are associated with the acquired biological information and stored in an image accumulator. By pressing a lock-on switch while confining a target in an area designating frame on an ordinary image on a monitor, the target is designated and biological information on the target is determined. Thereafter, biological information associated with the latest image in the image accumulator is compared with the biological information on the search target. If the latest image contains an area having the same biological information as the search target, the area designating frame is displayed on that area on the monitor.

Abstract: Provided are a plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements having different central light emission wavelengths, a multiplexer means for multiplexing lights, and a central wavelength converting means for controlling a light emission amount ratio of the plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements by the use of a wavelength conversion table in which a central wavelength of multiplexed laser light is obtained on the basis of information of a light emission amount and the central light emission wavelengths. Accordingly, the central wavelength of the multiplexed light is controlled to be a predetermined wavelength.

Abstract: An endoscope system is able to stably obtain an image free from speckle interference. A captured image including a first basic color component B on which a speckle noise of a laser beam is superimposed and a second basic color component G not including the speckle noise. A speckle noise component Bs is extracted based on difference information between the first basic color component B and the second basic color component G Based on the extracted speckle noise component Bs, the speckle noise component Bs is removed from the first basic color component B, so as to obtain a good observation image free from the speckle noise.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a content display, an extraction module, and a keyword display. The content display is configured to display a content. The extraction module is configured to extract a keyword from the content displayed by the content display. The keyword display is configured to display the keyword extracted by the extraction module in a content display window.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the invention, an endoscopic apparatus outputs illuminating light from a tip of an endoscope inserting module to a subject and detects a reflected light from the subject to obtain an image signal of the subject. The endoscopic apparatus includes a first light source, a second light source, a target light intensity setting module, a light intensity ratio setting module, an information storing module, an amplitude value setting module, a driving signal generating module, a signal supplying module.

Abstract: An endoscopic device that irradiates a plurality of illuminating light having different spectrums from each other onto a subject at a front edge of an endoscope inserting module and captures the subject to obtain an observation image The endoscopic device includes an illuminating module, an imaging module, a light intensity ratio control module, and a color tone correcting module. The illuminating module generates the plurality of illuminating light. The imaging module captures the subject and output an image signal of the observation image. The light intensity ratio control module controls the illuminating module to irradiate the plurality of illuminating light onto the subject with a set light intensity ratio by setting the light intensity ratio of the plurality of illuminating light. The color tone correcting module corrects the color tone to obtain the observation image with substantially the same color tone even though the light intensity ratio is changed.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a content display, a storage, and a keyword display. The content display comprises tabs capable of displaying contents, one of the tabs being an active tab. The storage stores keywords extracted from the contents displayed in the tabs for respective tabs. The keyword display reads a keyword extracted from a content displayed in the active tab from the storage and displays the read keyword.

Abstract: An endoscope includes a bending section for bending a bending portion, a manipulating section for operating the bending portion to bend the bending portion, a drive section for bending the bending portion with the bending section, a brake instruction section and a brake release instruction section, and a bend amount detecting section. In response to a brake instruction, the bend amount at a point in time the brake instruction was given is detected, and the drive section is so controlled as to maintain the bend amount whereas in response to a brake release instruction, the drive force of the drive section for maintaining the bend amount is gradually reduced.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a keyword display module, a selection module and an information-retrieval module. The keyword display module is configured to display at least two keywords. The selection module is configured to select a keyword from the at least two keywords displayed by the keyword display module. The information-retrieval module is configured to retrieve information by using the keyword selected by the selection module. The keyword display module is further configured to display one or more keywords belonging to a preset category, as at least one of the at least two keywords.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method of processing data for an information processing apparatus includes extracting, displaying, transmitting and updating. The extracting extracts keywords from a Web page being displayed by a browser. The displaying displays the extracted keywords. The transmitting transmits a keyword and attribute data associate with the keyword to a retrieval site, if the keyword is selected from the displayed keywords. The updating updates the displayed keywords if the browser acquires the Web page.

Abstract: A light source device of an electronic endoscope system has first and second semiconductor lasers. In a vascular observation mode, one of the semiconductor lasers is used in a full light state (100% rated output) while the other is used in a reduced light state (for example, 10% rated output). First and second images of an internal body portion are captured with a color imaging device under illumination of two patterns, respectively. Correlation operation of pixel values of three colors is performed between the two images. Noise components, caused by the first or second semiconductor lasers in the light reduced state, are removed from the first and second images. An oxygen saturation level of blood in a blood vessel is calculated using the first and second images with the noise components removed.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processor includes a text selection module, a text analysis module, a keyword display module, and an action selection module. The text selection module receives an input of a portion selected from text being displayed. The text analysis module analyzes text information in the portion to extract a word or a word group as a keyword contained in the text information. The keyword display module displays a list of keywords extracted by the text analysis module and, if a specific keyword is selected, displays a list of actions corresponding to the specific keyword. The action selection module performs, if a specific action is selected from the list of actions, processing related to the specific action.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus comprises a content display, an extraction module, a storage, and a keyword display. The content display is configured to display a content. The extraction module is configured to extract a keyword from the content displayed by the content display. The storage is configured to store a first keyword extracted by the extraction module. The keyword display is configured to display the first keyword extracted by the extraction module and a second keyword read from the storage.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a region-of-interest extraction apparatus includes following units. The acquisition unit acquires a structured document including elements. The first extraction unit extracts block regions including specific elements, from the structured document. The second extraction unit extracts, as a display region, parts of the elements being displayed on a display screen, from the structured document. The third extraction unit extracts a region of interest, in which a user is interested, from the structured document, based on relations between the block regions and the display region.

Abstract: White light and excitation light are applied to an internal body part. An electronic endoscope captures a normal image of the internal body part irradiated with the white light, and a special image of autofluorescence emitted from living body tissue of the internal body part irradiated with the excitation light. An object distance detector detects an object distance between a CCD and an inspection area of the internal body part based on the normal image. A binning processing section applies a binning process to the special image. There are two types of binning processes, i.e. an intensity adjustment process and a resolution adjustment process. In the intensity adjustment process, the binning number is increased with increase in the object distance. In the resolution adjustment process, the binning number is decreased with increase in the object distance. Which process to perform is determined by operation on a processing type selector.