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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:
Sep. 25, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2001
Applicants:
Marc R. Amling, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
David Chatenever, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Marc R. Amling, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
David Chatenever, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Karl Storz Imaging, Inc., Goleta, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/225 (2006.01); A61B 1/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A video imaging system is provided including a camera head for transmitting image data to a CCU, a CCU for receiving and processing the image data into a usable format, a storage device accessible by the camera control unit, information stored on the storage device, and wherein the information is used by the camera control unit for selecting hardware in the camera control unit to process the image data.