Patent ID: 8216126

Claim:
A living body observing apparatus comprising: an illumination section including one or a plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements for emitting illumination light to illuminate a subject; an image pickup section for picking up an image of the subject illuminated by lights of respective color wavelength bands emitted from the illumination section, and outputting the picked-up image as an image pickup signal separated so as to at least include two color components of a green component and a blue component; and an image processing section for performing a predetermined processing on the image pickup signal outputted from the image pickup section, and outputting the processed image pickup signal as a video signal to display the image of the subject on a display section, wherein, when a red component is included in the image pickup signal, the image processing section removes the red component before performing the predetermined processing, and further performs, as the predetermined processing, color conversion processing to convert the blue component in the image pickup signal into a green component in the video signal, and convert the green component in the image pickup signal into a red component in the video signal, and thereafter performs weighting processing respectively on the red component and the green component in the video signal.