Endoscope apparatus and program

A program causing a computer which controls an endoscope apparatus including an endoscope that generates an image signal of a subject, an image signal processing portion that processes the image signal to generate image data, a display signal generating portion that generates a display signal for displaying an image based on the image data and a character input screen, and an operation portion that inputs a character by operating the character input screen, to function as;

• a character string storage portion that stores a character string and an operation state of the apparatus in a state where the character string is correlated to the operation state of the apparatus;
• a display instruction detecting portion that detects a display instruction of the character input screen;
• an operation state detecting portion that detects an operation state of the apparatus;
• a reading portion that reads a character string, which corresponds to the operation state detected by the operation state detecting portion, from the character string storage portion when the display instruction is detected;
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• a control portion that controls the display signal generating portion to display a screen including a component for selecting the character string read by the reading portion and, when an operation on the component is detected, controls the display signal generating portion to display a character string corresponding to the component.