Olympus Corporation

Olympus Medical Systems Corporation

Koichi Niida

Shinya Kawasaki

Tomoki Iwasaki

Takeshi Urasaki

Manabu Yajima

Satoru Ono

Takuya Ogura

Sachiko Hashimoto

Hideyuki Wada

Masaki Kondo

Takahiro Yumoto

Atsuhiko Kushida

Ryunosuke Matsushige

Aki Matsumoto

Tomomi Ouchi

An endoscope system includes an endoscope including at least one switch, each of which can be assigned two functions, and a controller. The controller sets a plurality of function pairs, each of which is composed of a combination of any one of a plurality of first functions and any one of a plurality of second functions, and assigns one function pair selected from the plurality of function pairs to the switch, measures a switch pressing time period after the switch is pressed, and executes the first function when the switch pressing is released before a predetermined first time period elapses after the switch is pressed and executes the second function when the switch pressing time period passes the first time period.

Endoscope system for assiging multiple functions to a switch, control method of endoscope system and storage medium

An endoscope apparatus includes a CCD disposed at a distal end portion of an endoscope insertion section, a first LED and a second LED functioning as illumination-light emitting unit, a region setting section that sets a first region where illumination by the first LED is predominant on an endoscopic image and a second region where illumination by the second LED is predominant on the endoscopic image, and a white balance circuit that respectively calculates color balance values corresponding to the first and second regions and applies correction processing to a color balance value of a video signal of the entire endoscopic image on the basis of results of the respective calculations.

Endoscope apparatus with color-balance measuring and color-balance correcting

Communication-identifier-assigned image data is transmitted via a set channel using the same as a communication identifier set for each image transmitter and a channel set in transmission. Then, a receiver which has received a plurality of image data items stores the received image data items, communication identifiers, and channels in such a manner that the received image data items are related to the communication identifiers and channels. Thumbnailed images in each image data item are displayed on one screen. When an image is selected from the thumbnailed images, an image transmitter that has transmitted the image is determined on the basis of the communication identifier and channel related to the selected image and is connected exclusively to the receiver. Images acquired from this time on are enlarged and displayed chronologically on a display section. The image transmitter and receiver constitute a wireless communication system.

Wireless communication system comprising receiver and image transmitter and wireless communication method thereof

A wireless image acquisition system includes an image acquisition apparatus configured to transmit acquired image information by radio waves, and an image receiving unit configured to receive and display the image information transmitted from the image acquisition apparatus. A display unit of the image receiving unit displays wireless communication setting information. An image acquisition unit of the image acquisition apparatus captures the wireless communication setting information, and a communication setting unit makes wireless communication setting of the image acquisition apparatus based on the captured wireless communication setting information. One of the image acquisition apparatus and image receiving unit further includes a detection unit configured to detect that the distance from the image acquisition unit to the display unit is within a predetermined value when the wireless communication setting information is captured, and a warning unit configured to give a warning when the detected distance is within the predetermined value.

Wireless image acquisition system

An endoscope system has a lamp that emits illumination light with which an object is illuminated, and a power supply that supplies power with which the lamp is lit. Furthermore, the endoscope system includes a condition detecting unit and a notifying unit. The condition detecting unit is provided to or near the lamp and detects a predetermined condition relevant to the lamp. The notifying unit notifies an operator of the state of the lamp according to a result of detection performed by the condition detecting unit. The condition detecting unit is a temperature detector or a power detector . The temperature detector detects whether the temperature at or near the lamp is equal to or larger than a predetermined value. The power detector detects whether current or voltage supplied or applied from the power supply to the lamp is equal to or smaller than a predetermined value.

Endoscope device

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Hachioji, Japan

Koichi Niida