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Electronic endoscope

  • US 6,677,983 B1
  • Filed: 12/20/1999
  • Issued: 01/13/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/24/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An electronic endoscope comprising:

  • a display processor that radiates light output from a light source to an object, to obtain and display an image of said object on a screen;

    a setting processor comprising an image display condition adjustment switch configured to set an image display condition by changing at least one of a plurality of variables each corresponding to a different image display condition of the image, said setting processor configured to determine set values set by said adjustment switch;

    a set value recording processor that temporarily stores said set values in a volatile memory, and reads said set values from said volatile memory to record said set values in a non-volatile memory at a predetermined time interval, wherein said set value recording processor does not record set values corresponding to an unchanged variable of the plurality of variables in the non-volatile memory.

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