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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:
May. 11, 1993
Filed:
Aug. 28, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Keiichi Hiyama, Akishima, JP;
Takao Tsuruoka, Hachioji, JP;
Kazunari Nakamura, Hachioji, JP;
Yutaka Konomura, Tachikawa, JP;
Masahide Kanno, Hachioji, JP;
Shinichiro Hattori, Hachioji, JP;
Assignee:
Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ; A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
128-6 ; 358 98 ;
Abstract
This endoscope image data compressing apparatus comprises a plurality of image compressing apparatus not equivalent to each other for compressing input endoscope image data and outputting the compressed data and a selecting apparatus for selecting the compressed data output from at least one of the image compressing apparatus. The selecting apparatus selects in response to the kind of the endoscope, characteristic of the image, picture quality of the compressed image, recording time intervals and others.