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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 1988
Filed:
Jul. 30, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
Tadashi Kato, Hachioji, JP;
Assignee:
Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ; H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358 98 ; 128-6 ;
Abstract
An electronic endoscope comprises an endoscope provided with an imaging device. A signal treating circuit produces color signals from output signals of the imaging device. Image enhancers respectively enhance the edges of the images of the color signals produced by the signal treating circuit. An image enhanced amount setting circuit respectively set the image enhanced amounts by the image enhancers independently of the respective color signals.