US 7,570,984 B2
Diagnostic imaging apparatus
Naoki Katsuda, Kyoto (Japan); Kenji Kino, Kyoto (Japan); Kazunari Matoba, Kyoto (Japan); and Minoru Imazato, Kyoto (Japan)
Assigned to J. Morita Manufacturing Corporation, Kyoto (Japan)
Filed on Jan. 14, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/757,064.
Claims priority of application No. 2003-006441 (JP), filed on Jan. 14, 2003; application No. 2003-380294 (JP), filed on Nov. 10, 2003; and application No. 2003-408054 (JP), filed on Dec. 05, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2005/0003323 A1, Jan. 06, 2005
Int. Cl. A61B 5/05 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 600—407  [600/476; 600/473] 31 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A diagnostic imaging apparatus comprising:
a main body freely held between one's fingers;
a forward portion of said main body comprising a head portion;
a luminous means for irradiating at least one of lights selected from exciting light, infrared light and ultraviolet light;
a means for imaging provided at said forward portion of said main body, comprising a solid a solid-state image sensing device and means for forming an optical image of a diagnostic object on said solid-state image sensing device;
wherein said imaging means receives a reflection light from said diagnostic object and/or a fluorescence of said diagnostic object to output a predetermined diagnostic image information when light is irradiated from said luminous means to said diagnostic object;
a means for image storing provided in said main body;
a control means for recording and storing the predetermined diagnostic image information formed by said means for imaging, as a static image; and
automatic photography control means for executing a predetermined time sequence by manual operation of a photography switch, provided with said image storing means, to sequentially store and keep in a memory the predetermined diagnostic image information formed by said imaging means each time irradiation light with a different wavelength is selectively irradiated.