Electronic endoscope apparatus
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorAkira MATSUI
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Abstract
An electronic endoscope apparatus has an endoscope unit and an image processing unit. The endoscope unit is configured to be inserted into the subject's body cavity and has a first communication control unit configured to perform bidirectional communication with the image processing unit via a signal line in time-division fashion. The image processing unit has a second communication control unit configured to perform bidirectional communication with the endoscope unit via the signal line in time-division fashion. The second communication control unit transmits a signal to the endoscope unit during a period in which no signals are transmitted to it from the first communication control unit.
Claims5
An electronic endoscope apparatus comprising:
- an endoscope unit which has a first communication control unit configured to be inserted into a body cavity of a subject and to perform bidirectional communication via a signal line in time-division fashion;
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- an image processing unit which has a second communication unit configured to perform bidirectional communication with the endoscope unit via the signal line in time-division fashion and to transmit a signal from the image processing unit to the endoscope unit during a period in which no signals are transmitted from the first communication control unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.