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Electronic endoscope apparatus

  • US 6,597,390 B1
  • Filed: 01/07/2000
  • Issued: 07/22/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/11/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An electronic endoscope apparatus comprising:

  • a pixel mixing and reading system circuit section for mixing pixel signals between upper and lower horizontal lines and reading said pixel signals from an image pickup device;

    an all-pixel reading system circuit section for reading all pixel signals formed by the image pickup device through the same exposure while using a predetermined opaque period; and

    a control circuit for controlling the circuit sections;

    wherein one of the pixel mixing and reading system and the all-pixel reading system is set as a standard system and the other is configured so as to be selectively settable, and the control circuit judges whether the circuit section which can be selectively set is present and when the presence of the circuit section is detected, performs control so as to execute the circuit-section-type operation is performed.

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