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All-pixels reading type electronic endoscope apparatus

  • US 6,219,091 B1
  • Filed: 01/13/2000
  • Issued: 04/17/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/12/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An all-pixels reading type electronic endoscope apparatus comprising:

  • an all-pixels reading means for reading video signals on either of the odd lines and the even lines first and then reading the video signals on the other lines which are stored for each pixel by an image sensor at one exposure while cutting off incident light for a predetermined period;

    all-pixels memories for storing said video signal on said odd lines and said video signal on said even lines obtained by said image sensor;

    a mixer for mixing said video signal on said odd lines and said video signals on said even lines which are read out of said all-pixels memories and forming pixel mixture signals;

    a light quantity controller for controlling the quantity of light output from a light source by driving a stop on the basis of a luminance signal of said pixel mixture signals output from said mixer;

    an electronic shutter controller for controlling the storage time of said video signals in said image sensor as a shutter speed; and

    a main control circuit for controlling said shutter speed to a higher value when said stop of said light quantity controller is judged not to be in a full-open state, while controlling said shutter speed to a lower value when said stop is judged to be in a full-open state, and inhibiting said all-pixels memories from being written into at the point of time when said video signals on said odd lines and said even lines at the same exposure are stored therein so as to display a picture on the basis of the picture data at the same exposure.

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