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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2006
Atsushi Shimada, Tokyo, JP;
Yusuke Yabe, Tokyo, JP;
Tomoya Takahashi, Tokyo, JP;
Susumu Hashimoto, Tokyo, JP;
Atsushi Shimada, Tokyo, JP;
Yusuke Yabe, Tokyo, JP;
Tomoya Takahashi, Tokyo, JP;
Susumu Hashimoto, Tokyo, JP;
Olympus Medical Systems Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An electronic endoscopic apparatus of the present invention can improve the usage efficiency of a circuit of a control section therein and can improve the reliability of operations of the circuit. The electronic endoscopic apparatus is an electronic endoscopic apparatus having multiple operation modes to be executed exclusively, the apparatus internally including an FPGAthat internally includes a CPUand peripheral circuits and controls the execution of the operation modes and a switching request detecting section that detects a request for switching to the operation mode to be executed, wherein the internal configuration of the FPGAis changed based on the detection result by the switching request detecting section.