Endoscope apparatus
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorSaichi Sato
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Abstract
An endoscope apparatus is an endoscope apparatus that picks up an image of an object using a camera. The endoscope apparatus includes a semiconductor device mounted on a circuit substrate including a CPU core and a drive circuit for driving the camera and a parameter setting section provided in the semiconductor device that sets parameter data for adjusting output timing of a drive signal of the drive circuit or input timing of an image signal from the camera.
Claims17
An endoscope apparatus that picks up an image of an object using an image pickup device, comprising:
- a main body to which a plurality of insertion portions are allowed to be connected;
- a semiconductor device mounted on a circuit substrate provided to the main body, and having a CPU and a first drive circuit for driving the image pickup device;
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- a nonvolatile memory that is provided in the semiconductor device and stores a first program for setting first parameter data for adjusting a first output timing of a drive signal of the first drive circuit, the first output timing being different for each of the insertion portions,
- wherein the CPU reads the first program for setting the first parameter data from the nonvolatile memory and executes the read first program, to thereby set the first parameter data in the first drive circuit.
An endoscope apparatus that picks up an image of an object using an image pickup device provided at a distal end portion of an insertion portion of the endoscope, comprising:
- a main body to which a plurality of insertion portions are allowed to be connected;
- a semiconductor device made up of a one-chip IC mounted on a circuit substrate provided to the main body, and having a CPU and a first drive circuit for driving the image pickup device;
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- a nonvolatile memory that is provided in the semiconductor device and stores a first program for setting first parameter data for adjusting a first output timing of a drive signal of the first drive circuit, the first output timing being different for each of the insertion portions,
- wherein the CPU reads the first program for setting the first parameter data from the nonvolatile memory and executes the read first program, to thereby set the first parameter data in the first drive circuit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.