Patent ID: 7221388
Filing Date: 2007-05-22
Classification: A61B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An endoscope image sensing apparatus comprising: an image sensing device for imaging an object to obtain an image signal, and outputting the image signal; a storage section for storing a plurality of color matrices each corresponding to a plurality of color tones for displaying an observation image of the object on a display section; a color adjustment processing section for performing color adjustment processing; a recognition section for recognizing a kind of light source to be used in irradiation of the object based on data at the time of the color adjustment processing; a selecting section for selecting a color matrix from the plurality of color matrices for displaying the observation image in a color tone according to a recognition result of the recognition section; and a computing section for performing computation using the selected color matrix to convert the image signal output from the image sensing device to a color component signal.