PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an endoscope apparatus capable of obtaining a high-quality image with few noises by moving a position of light incident on an image sensor to then obtain a plurality of images.SOLUTION: An endoscope apparatus includes: an imaging part 11 for imaging an object to be inspected an electric bending mechanism 13 that has a driving motor 35 for helping to insert an endoscope-inserting part 2 a controller 21 for controlling the tip end portion of the endoscope-inserting part 2 to move by driving the driving motor 35 of the electric bending mechanism 13, so that the object to be inspected are imaged from different positions by using the imaging part 11 to obtain a plurality of still images and an image-synthesizing part 27 for synthesizing the plurality of still images of the object, which are obtained by imaging the object with the imaging part 11.COPYRIGHT: (C)2014,JPO&INPIT【課題】撮像素子へ入射する光の位置をずらして複数枚の画像を得ることによってノイズが少なくかつ高画質な画像を得ることができる内視鏡装置を提供する。【解決手段】内視鏡装置1は、被検体を撮像する撮像部11と、内視鏡挿入部2の挿入を補助する駆動用モータ35を有する電動湾曲機構13と、電動湾曲機構13の駆動用モータ35を駆動させて挿入部2の先端部を動かして、撮像部11により被検体を異なる位置から撮像して複数の静止画を得るように制御する制御部21と、撮像部11により撮像して得られた被検体の複数の静止画を合成する画像合成部27と、を有する。【選択図】図1
