Patent ID: 7283858

Claim:
A fluorescent-light image display method comprising: obtaining a fluorescent-light image based on the strength of fluorescent-light emitted from a target area upon irradiation thereof by a stimulating-light, assigning at least one of color data and brightness data to a computed-image based on said fluorescent-light image and forming a tissue-state image representing mainly the state of the tissue in the target area, assigning to said fluorescent-light image at least one of color data and brightness data corresponding to the at least one of color data and the brightness data assigned to said tissue-state image and forming a tissue-form image representing mainly the form of the tissue in the target area, such that said tissue-state image and said tissue-form image are initially separate images, combining the tissue-state image and the tissue-form image to form a composite-image, and displaying the composite-image, wherein the brightness data is a degree of brightness according to a color mixing system or a color appearance system, each being one of color specification systems, or luminance according to an image signal system.