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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2012
Applicant:
Mitsunobu Ono, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Mitsunobu Ono, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/045 (2006.01); A61B 1/05 (2006.01); A61B 1/12 (2006.01); H04N 5/376 (2011.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/045 (2013.01); A61B 1/05 (2013.01); A61B 1/128 (2013.01); H04N 5/3765 (2013.01); H04N 2005/2255 (2013.01);
Abstract
An electronic endoscope apparatus includes: a CCD; a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of a distal end portion; a correlated double sampling section provided in a body portion, the correlated double sampling section extracting a signal component from an image signal outputted from the CCD; a timing generator that generates a sample-and-hold signal for making the correlated double sampling section operate and a drive pulse signal for driving the CCD; and a CPU that adjusts a timing of the sample-and-hold signal or the drive pulse signal generated by the timing generator, based on the temperature detected by the temperature sensor.