ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM

• US 20130041220A1
• Filed: 08/09/2012
• Published: 02/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/02/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corporation (Olympus Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corporation (Olympus Corporation)
• Inventors: KUTSUMA, Yuji
• Application Number:
  US13/570,661
• Publication Number:
  US 20130041220A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/109
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00004 characterised by electronic signal processing
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/000095 for image enhancement
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00059 provided with identification means for the endoscope
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/04 combined with photographic or television appliances
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/042 characterised by a proximal camera, e.g. a CCD camera
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/045 Control thereof
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/053 being detachable
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/76 by influencing the image signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 25/68 applied to defects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 25/75 Circuitry for providing, modifying or processing image signals from the pixel array

Abstract

An endoscope system is an endoscope system including a first endoscope and a second endoscope, the first endoscope including a first frequency correction section, and the second endoscope not including the first frequency correction section, and a video processor, wherein the video processor includes a frequency correction information storage section which stores third frequency correction information based on the endoscope information of the second endoscope, a correction amount acquiring section which acquires second frequency correction information for performing frequency correction in concert with frequency correction processing by the first frequency correction section when the first endoscope is connected and acquires the third frequency correction information from the frequency correction information storage section when the second endoscope is connected, and a second frequency correction section which performs frequency correction on the video signal from the endoscopes on the basis of the correction information acquired by the correction amount acquiring section.

Claims

1. An endoscope system comprising:

a first endoscope and a second endoscope that are each an endoscope including an image pickup section which picks up an optical image of a subject and outputs a video signal and an endoscope information storage section which stores endoscope information, the first endoscope including a first frequency correction section that corrects a frequency characteristic of the image pickup signal and storing first correction information of the first frequency correction section in the endoscope information storage section, and the second endoscope not including the first frequency correction section; and

a video processor to which the first endoscope and the second endoscope are detachably connected and which performs video signal processing on the video signal from the endoscopes,

wherein the video processor comprises

a frequency correction information storage section which stores third frequency correction information based on the endoscope information of the second endoscope,

an endoscope sensing section which reads out information stored in the endoscope information storage section of a connected one of the endoscopes and senses the connected endoscope,

a correction amount acquiring section which acquires second frequency correction information for performing frequency correction on the basis of the first frequency correction information in concert with frequency correction processing by the first frequency correction section when the endoscope sensing section senses that the first endoscope is connected and acquires the third frequency correction information from the frequency correction information storage section on the basis of the endoscope information sensed by the endoscope sensing section when the endoscope sensing section senses that the second endoscope is connected, and

a second frequency correction section which performs frequency correction on the video signal from the endoscopes on the basis of the correction information acquired by the correction amount acquiring section.

2. The endoscope system according to claim 1, wherein

the first frequency correction section of the first endoscope corrects transmission loss of the video signal caused by a transmission channel extending from the image pickup section in the first endoscope to the first frequency correction section, and

the second frequency correction section performs edge enhancement processing on the video signal.

3. The endoscope system according to claim 2, wherein

the second frequency correction section performs frequency correction on the video signal for each combination of types of endoscopes connected to the video processor and frequency bands.

4. The endoscope system according to claim 3, wherein

the second frequency correction section performs frequency correction independently for a horizontal direction and a vertical direction of the endoscope image.