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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2012
Olympus Medical Systems Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Olympus Medical Systems Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An endoscope systemis provided with an optical fiber cableand an electrical cablethat transmit pixel information output by a light receiving part, an image processorthat generates an image based on the pixel information transmitted from the optical fiber cableor the pixel information transmitted from the electrical cable, and a control unitthat controls a display unitto display the image generated by the image processor, determines whether or not a transmission abnormality is present in the optical fiber cable, and selects, as pixel information as a target to be processed by the image processor, one of the pixel information transmitted from the optical fiber cableand the pixel information transmitted from the electrical cabledepending on a presence of the transmission abnormality in the optical fiber cable