US Patent 7316647 Capsule endoscope and a capsule endoscope system

Patent 7316647 was granted and assigned to Olympus Group on January, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Ayako Nagase0

Hatsuo Shimizu0

Hiroshi Suzushima0

Katsuya Suzuki0

Katsuyoshi Sasagawa0

Kazutaka Nakatsuchi0

Masayuki Hashimoto0

Noriyuki Fujimori0

Seiichiro Kimoto0

Takemitsu Honda0

Tatsuya Orihara0

Tetsuo Minai0

Toshiaki Shigemori0

Tsutomu Nakamura0

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In a capsule endoscope illuminating units are disposed around an image capturing unit in such a manner that an optical axis of the illuminating units do not intersect with an optical axis of the observation unit, and illumination areas of the illuminating units overlap at substantially a central portion of an image capturing area of the image capturing unit.

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