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Endoscope image pick-up apparatus

  • US 8,303,491 B2
  • Filed: 04/08/2011
  • Issued: 11/06/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An endoscope image pick-up apparatus comprising:

  • an image pick-up unit for insertion into the body;

    an extra-corporeal unit for receiving an image captured by the image pick-up unit by radio transmission, the extra-corporeal unit being arranged outside the body;

    an image pick-up device for picking up an image in the body, the image pick-up device being provided in the image pick-up unit;

    a first storing device for storing the image picked up by the image pick-up device, the storing device being provided in the image pick-up unit;

    a processing device for reading the image from the first storing device and performing a predetermined processing, the processing device being provided in the image pick-up unit;

    a second storing device for storing data performed with the predetermined processing, the storing device being provided in the image pick-up unit; and

    a radio transmission device for reading the data from the second storing device and transmitting the data by radio, the radio transmission device being provided in the image pick-up unit;

    wherein the first storing device, when storing the image therein, operates at a high-speed clock same with that of an image pick-up operation by the image pick-up device, and when the processing device performs a predetermined processing to the image, operates at a low-speed clock same with that of the processing device.

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