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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2008
Seigo Itou, Hachioji, JP;
Masanobu Koitabashi, Hachioji, JP;
Seigo Itou, Hachioji, JP;
Masanobu Koitabashi, Hachioji, JP;
Olympus Medical Systems Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An electric bending endoscope device includes an endoscope with a driving unit, a control unit and an operation portion with a bending instruction portion. The operation portion includes a correction algorithm calculating portion in which the output range of instruction signal of the joystick is converted to coincide with the predetermined output range of the bending instruction portion instruction-signal being the operation signal outputted by the operation portion according to the joystick being the bending instruction portion to be fitted to the operation portion, to generate the bending instruction portion operation-signal.