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Automatic illumination control of an endoscope

Assignee: Richard Wolf GmbH
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Filing: 1990-08-10
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Granted: —
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Expires: 2010-08-10
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Abstract

Abstract Provided in a device for automatically controlling the light source (2) that can be used for the illuminating light of an endoscope (1) equipped with a video camera (5) is a signal processing device (3) having a window-generating facility (14) and having a window fade-in facility (23) that represents the window visually and delimits it optically. A measuring window (18) is generated in the video picture represented on the monitor (7) and faded in as a frame. The video signal used for controlling the quantity of light is integrated only inside the measuring window (18). <IMAGE>

Inventors

  • 👤 Felix Ams
  • 👤 Roland SCHÄFER

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CPC Classifications
A; A61; A61B; A61B1/00; A61B1/04; A61B1/042; A61B1/06; A61B1/0655; A61B1/0661; H; H04; H04N; H04N23/00; H04N23/50; H04N23/555; H04N23/70; H04N23/74

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