Title:
IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2018/096822
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
This image pickup device has: a light source device 4 that emits illuminating light; an image pickup element 22, which picks up an image of a subject to be inspected, and generates image signals; a waveguide 51, i.e., a transmission path, which propagates the image signals as millimeter electromagnetic waves or sub-millimeter electromagnetic waves, and which is opened at both the ends; an optical fiber 51a that serves as a dielectric body in the waveguide 51, and also as a light guide for transmitting the illuminating light; transmission-side waveguide connection antennas 52a, 52b for transmitting the image signals as the millimeter electromagnetic waves into the optical fiber 51a, said transmission-side waveguide connection antennas being inserted into the optical fiber 51a; and reception-side waveguide connection antennas 72a, 72b, which receive the image signals as the millimeter electromagnetic waves propagating in the waveguide 51.
Inventors:
WATANABE TADASHI (JP)
KAWASAKI SHINYA
KAWASAKI SHINYA
Application Number:
PCT/JP2017/036928
Publication Date:
May 31, 2018
Filing Date:
October 12, 2017
Export Citation:
Assignee:
OLYMPUS CORP (JP)
International Classes:
A61B1/00; G02B23/24; H04N7/18
Domestic Patent References:
| WO2013096584A2 | 2013-06-27 |
Foreign References:
| JP2013162149A | 2013-08-19 | |||
| JP2015186556A | 2015-10-29 |
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
ITOH Susumu (JP)
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