Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Tadao Eto

Keiichi Hiyama

Masahide Kanno

Shinichi Omori

Kenji Matsunaka

Hiroyuki Shibata

Shouichi Ieoka

Tatsuya Shiobara

Hiroko Ohishi

Kazunori Matsuura

Each of a plurality of endoscopes of an endoscope system is provided with a non-volatile memory in which information inherent to an endoscope, such as the model and manufacturing number, is stored. By a large capacity memory device provided in a server, which is connected with the endoscope through a network, with information inherent to each endoscope, the use condition, the cleaning condition, the cleaning effective period and the like are centrally administrated. Accordingly, the use condition, the cleaning condition and the like of each endoscope used in an endoscopic examination can be confirmed so that the endoscopic examination can be performed smoothly.

Data filing system for endoscope

An endoscope image filing apparatus wherein endoscope image information and search information required to search this image information are recorded in the same medium by a recording apparatus, on the other hand, medium discriminating information is imparted to this medium by an imparting apparatus and the search information and medium discriminating information are memorized in a controlling apparatus so that, in case there are many recording media, when the search information is input into the controlling apparatus, the medium discriminating information of the medium in which the search information is recorded may be obtained.

Endoscope image filing system

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Hino, Japan

Tadao Eto