Video endoscope system for use with different sizes of solid state devices
US4816909A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Dec 16, 1987 |
| Grant date | Mar 28, 1989 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 16, 2007 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N23/555
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An endoscope contains or is externally fitted with a color imaging device using a solid state imaging device and a signal processing device processing a signal for the endoscope. The color imaging device and solid state imaging device are provided so that the number of pixels and the kind of spectral characteristic of the color imaging device of the endoscope to be connected may be discriminated to process the signal even for the endoscopes having number of pixels and the spectral characteristic.
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