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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2019

Filed:

Jun. 21, 2017
Applicant:

Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Hideyuki Kugimiya, Hachioji, JP;

Ryo Koshida, Fuchu, JP;

Takehiko Ito, Hidaka, JP;

Assignee:

Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/04 (2006.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); G02B 23/24 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); A61B 1/045 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/04 (2013.01); A61B 1/00009 (2013.01); A61B 1/00013 (2013.01); A61B 1/045 (2013.01); G02B 23/2484 (2013.01); H04N 5/23203 (2013.01); A61B 1/00011 (2013.01); G02B 23/2415 (2013.01); H04N 2005/2255 (2013.01);
Abstract

An endoscope system includes an image pickup portion configured to pick up an image of a subject and output the image as an electrical signal, a processor configured to perform, on the electrical signal, a signal correction that converts the electrical signal into a signal of a video format that is compatible with a signal processed by the image processing apparatus, and an image processing portion configured to perform image processing on the electrical signal after the signal correction. An E/O converter that converts the electrical signal into an optical signal, an optical fiber that transmits the optical signal, and an O/E converter that converts the optical signal into the electrical signal, are arranged in at least one of between the image pickup portion and the processor, and between the processor and the image processing portion.


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