# US 2017/0280968 A1 · Endoscopic system

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- Number: US 2017/0280968 A1
- Document ID: US20170280968A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 15/626,724
- Filed: 2017-06-19
- Published: 2017-10-05
- Earliest claimed: 2014-12-26
- Assignees: Olympus Corporation
- Applicants: Olympus Corporation
- Inventors: Takahiro NARASAWA; Akihiro UKAI; Yasuhisa SEKI; Masanao HARA
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20170280968A1

## CPC

- A61B 1/00006: {of control signals}
- A61B 1/00011: {characterised by signal transmission}
- A61B 1/00039: {provided with input arrangements for the user}
- A61B 1/045: Control thereof
- A61B 1/00009: {of image signals during a use of endoscope}
- H04N 21/436: Interfacing a local distribution network, e.g. communicating with another STB {or one or more peripheral devices} inside the home
- A61B: DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION (usefulness limited to only animals A61D)
- H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

## Abstract

Destination management processing units (13,23) of a video processor and a peripheral device each perform destination management processing in a communication between the video processor and the peripheral device. A plurality of communication processing units are situated above the destination management processing unit, respectively correspond to functions of a plurality of peripheral devices, and each process a command. When the destination management processing unit transmits a command, the destination management processing unit adds, to the command to be transmitted, destination information that indicates which of the plurality of communication processing units is to be used. When the destination management processing unit has received a command, the destination management processing unit determines a destination of the received command using destination information added to the received command and distributes the received command to a communication processing unit from among the plurality of communication processing units that is indicated by the destination.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A video processor comprising:
a plurality of communication processing units that include at least one communication processing unit that performs processing that corresponds to an input command; and
a destination management processing unit to which a command including information that indicates a destination is input from a peripheral device that has a specified function, wherein when the destination indicated by the information included in the input command is one of the plurality of communication processing units, the destination management processing unit outputs the command to the one of the plurality of communication processing units which corresponds to the destination, and when the destination indicated by the information included in the input command is not any of the plurality of communication processing units, the destination management processing unit outputs the command to a specified communication processing unit from among the plurality of communication processing units.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The video processor according to claim 1, wherein
the plurality of communication processing units include a general-purpose communication processing unit that can communicate with the peripheral device regardless of a function of the peripheral device, and
the specified communication processing unit is the general-purpose communication processing unit.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The video processor according to claim 1, wherein
when a command that makes a request that the specified communication processing unit perform processing on the command output to the specified communication processing unit is input from the peripheral device, the specified communication processing unit formally performs the processing.

### Claim 4

A video processor that can communicate with a peripheral device, the video processor comprising:
a plurality of communication processing units that include at least one communication processing unit that performs processing that corresponds to an input command;
an updating function that updates the video processor; and
a destination management processing unit to which a command including information indicating a destination is input from the peripheral device, and that outputs the command to a communication processing unit from among the plurality of communication processing units that corresponds to the destination, wherein
when the destination management processing unit further receives, from the peripheral device, a command that makes a request to perform updating and update data, the destination management processing unit outputs the command and the update data to the updating function, and
the updating function performs the updating of the video processor using the command that makes a request to perform updating and the update data.

### Claim 5

A video processor comprising:
a plurality of communication processing units that include at least one communication processing unit that performs processing that corresponds to an input command; and
a destination management processing unit to which a command including information indicating a destination is input from a peripheral device, and that outputs the command to a communication processing unit from among the plurality of communication processing units that corresponds to the destination, wherein
when the input command does not include the information that indicates a destination, the destination management processing unit outputs the command to a corresponding communication processing unit from among the plurality of communication processing units, on the basis of information that identifies the peripheral device.