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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2009
Yoichiro Kasai, Tokyo, JP;
Yoichiro Kasai, Tokyo, JP;
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An endoscope apparatus including: an endoscope; an image signal processing portion; a display signal generating portion for displaying an image and a character input screen; an operation portion that inputs a character; a character string storage portion that stores a character string and an operation state of the apparatus in a state where the character string is correlated to the operation state; a display instruction detecting portion that detects a display instruction of the character input screen; an operation state detecting portion that detects an operation state of the apparatus; a reading portion that reads a character string, which corresponds to the detected operation state; and a control portion that controls the display signal generating portion to display a screen including a component for selecting the read character string and controls the display signal generating portion to display a character string corresponding to the component.