Out-body observing apparatus

Claim 2

An out-body observing apparatus comprising: an endoscope having an elongated insertable part which can be inserted into a body cavity; a light source device which can feed said endoscope with an illuminating light capable of illuminating the body cavity interior with light radiated from said insertable part; an imaging means for detecting, outside the body, light from said illuminating light fed by said light source device, radiated from said insertable part onto a part to be observed and having passed through a living body tissue, and for producing, from said detected light, a projected image of the tissue; a signal processing means for processing a video signal from said projected image obtained by said imaging means; and a displaying means which can display on a picture surface a video image of the observed part with the video signal output from said signal processing means.

Claim 3

An out-body observing apparatus according to claim 1 wherein said imaging means has a solid state imaging device which can image the projected image formed by an image forming optical system.

Claim 4

An out-body observing apparatus according claim 2 wherein said image forming optical system is provided with a focus adjusting means capable of adjusting the focus of the optical system.

Claim 5

An out-body observing apparatus according to claim 2 wherein said image forming optical system has a diaphragm.

Claim 6

An out-body observing apparatus according to claim 2 wherein said imaging means has a light dividing means in the image forming optical system.

Claim 7

An out-body observing apparatus according to claim 5 wherein said light dividing means is a half mirror or half prism.

Claim 8

An out-body observing apparatus according to claim 1 wherein said imaging means has a mounting part and has in a tip part of said mounting part a bonding member bonded to the body surface.

Claim 9

An out-body observing apparatus according to claim 1 wherein said imaging means is provided with a mounting part which can be fixed in close contact with the body surface by sucking air.

Claim 10

An out-body observing apparatus according to claim 1 wherein said light source device emits an illuminating light of one, two or all of the wavelength ranges of an ultraviolet range, visible range and infrared range.

Claim 11

An out-body observing apparatus comprising: an endoscope having an elongated insertable part which can be inserted into a body cavity; a light source device which can feed said endoscope with an illuminating light capable of illuminating the body cavity interior with light radiated from said insertable part; an imaging means for detecting, outside the body, light from said illuminating light fed by said light source device, radiated from said insertable part onto a part to be observed and having passed through a living body tissue, and for producing, from said detected light, a projected image of the tissue; a signal processing means for processing a picture image signal obtained by said imaging means to be a video signal; a displaying means which can display on a picture surface a video image of the observed part by the video signal output from said signal processing means; and an emitted light amount adjusting means for adjusting the emitted light amount of said light source device from information of the received light amount obtained by said imaging means.

Claim 12

An out-body observing apparatus comprising: an endoscope having an elongated insertable part which can be inserted into a body cavity; a light source device which can feed said endoscope with an illuminating light capable of illuminating the body cavity interior with light radiated from said insertable part; an imaging means for detecting, outside the body, light from said illuminating light fed by said light source device, radiated from said insertable part onto a part to be observed and having passed through a living body tissue, and for producing, from said detected light, a projected image of the tissue; a signal processing means for processing a picture image signal obtained by said imaging means to be a video signal; a displaying means which can display on a picture surface a video image of the observed part by the video signal output from said signal processing means; and an emitted light amount adjusting means for adjusting the emitted light amount of said light source device from information of the received light amount obtained by said imaging means.

Claim 13

An out-body observed apparatus according to claim 10 wherein said emitted light amount adjusting means has a signal transmitting means and timing controlling means.

Claim 14

An out-body observing apparatus according to claim 10 wherein said imaging means has a solid state imaging device which can image the optical image formed by an image forming optical system.

Claim 15

An out-body observing apparatus according to claim 12 wherein said image forming optical system is provided with a focus adjusting means capable of adjusting the focus of the optical system.

Claim 16

An out-body observing apparatus according to claim 12 wherein said image forming optical system has a diaphragm.

Claim 17

An out-body observing apparatus according to claim 10 wherein said imaging means has a mounting part and has in a tip part of said mounting part a bonding member bonded to the body surface.

Claim 18

An out-body observing apparatus according to claim 10 wherein said imaging means is provided with a mounting part which can be fixed in close contact with the body surface by sucking air.

Claim 19

An out-body observing apparatus according to claim 10 wherein said imaging means has a light dividing means in an image forming optical system that forms said projected image.

Claim 20

An out-body observing apparatus according to claim 17 wherein said light dividing means is a half mirror or half prism.

Claim 21

An out-body observing apparatus according to claim 10 wherein said light source device emits an illuminating light of one, two or all of the wavelength ranges of an ultraviolet range, visible range and infrared range.

Claim 22

An out-body observing apparatus comprising: an illuminating means radiating an illuminating light from within a body onto a part to be observed within said body; and an imaging means provided outside the body for observing the image of said part to be observed by the illuminating light of said illuminating means received by said imaging means after having passed through a living body tissue.

Claim 23

An out-body observing apparatus comprising: an illuminating means radiating an illuminating light from within a body onto a part to be observed within said body; and an imaging means provided outside the body for observing the image of said part to be observed by the illuminating light of said illuminating means received by said imaging means after having passed through a living body tissue.

Claim 24

An out-body observing apparatus comprising: an endoscope having an elongated insertable part which can be inserted into a body cavity to illuminate interior tissue with light radiated from said insertable part; an imaging means for detecting, outside the body, a projected image of the interior tissue from said illuminating light radiated from said insertable part onto a part to be observed and having passed through a living body tissue and for producing a picture image signal; and a system controlling part provided integrally with a light source part which can feed said illuminating light, and a signal processing part for processing the picture image signal obtained by said imaging means to be a video signal.

Claim 25

An out-body observing apparatus comprising: an endoscope having an elongated insertable part which can be inserted into a body cavity to illuminate interior tissue with light radiated from said insertable part; an imaging means for detecting, outside the body, a projected image of the interior tissue from said illuminating light radiated from said insertable part onto a part to be observed and having passed through a living body tissue and for producing a picture image signal; and a system controlling part provided integrally with a light source part which can feed said illuminating light, and a signal processing part for processing the picture image signal obtained by said imaging means to be a video signal.

Claim 26

An out-body observing apparatus according to claim 21 wherein said system controlling part has a signal transmitting means whereby the emitted light amount of the light source part can be adjusted by the information of the received slight amount obtained from the imaging means and a timing controlling means.

Claim 27

An out-body observing apparatus according to claim 22 wherein said imaging means has a light dividing means in the image forming optical system.

Claim 28

An out-body observing apparatus according to claim 23 wherein said light dividing means is a half mirror or half prism.

Claim 29

An out-body observing apparatus according to claim 21 wherein said imaging means has a solid state imaging device which can image the optical image formed by an image forming optical system.

Claim 30

An out-body observing apparatus according to claim 25 wherein said image forming optical system is provided with a focus adjusting means capable of adjusting the focus of the optical system.

Claim 31

An out-body observing apparatus according to claim 25 wherein said image forming optical system has a diaphragm.

Claim 32

An out-body observing apparatus according to claim 21 wherein said imaging means has a mounting part and has in a tip part of said mounting part a bonding member bonded to the body surface.

Claim 33

An out-body observing apparatus according to claim 21 wherein said imaging means is provided with a mounting part which can be fixed in close contact with the body surface by sucking air.

Claim 34

An out-body observing apparatus according to claim 21 wherein said light source device emits an illuminating light of one, two or all of the wavelength ranges of an ultraviolet range, visible range and infrared range.