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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2004
Applicants:
Yoshitaka Honda, Tokyo, JP;
Kazue Tanaka, Sagamihara, JP;
Hiroo Ono, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 18/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A control switch detecting apparatus aims at detecting a control switch operable by an operator for controlling a medical device. When a position signal for representing a position of at least one of the control switch and the operator is transmitted from at least one of the control switch and the operator, an obtaining unit obtains relative position information indicative of a relative positional relationship between the control switch and the operator based on the transmitted position signal.
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