Endoscope apparatus and image processing method thereof

摘要

This invention provides an endoscope apparatus that can make an edging phenomenon in which an unnatural edge arises in a droplet image that appears in an observation video of an endoscope not visually recognizable by an observer, and an image processing method of the endoscope apparatus. By performing edging phenomenon detection processing and determination processing, a processor apparatus determines whether or not an edging phenomenon in which an edge in a horizontal direction arises in an image of a scattering droplet occurs in a frame image that was imaged by a CMOS type image pickup element of an endoscope (S10, S12). If the edging phenomenon is occurring, the processor apparatus executes edging phenomenon mitigation processing to mitigate the effects of the edging phenomenon (S14). As the edging phenomenon mitigation processing, blurring processing is executed on an edge portion to mitigate the effects of the edging phenomenon.