Abstract:
The invention provides an electronic endoscope system in which an endoscope control section of an electronic endoscope generates a power requesting signal indicating an amount of power to be supplied to the electronic endoscope in accordance with an operating state of an in-scope electric circuit and transmits the power requesting signal to a video processor, and a power supply control section of the video processor causes a power variable section and a variable regulator to output power with the amount of power indicated by the received power requesting signal to the electronic endoscope.
Abstract:
An endoscope apparatus is provided with: a power generating section supplying power to a target circuit of an endoscope; a scope information acquiring section acquiring scope information about the endoscope from the endoscope; a protection circuit provided in association with the power generating section, the protection circuit being capable of operating in a plurality of protection modes; and an operation controlling section controlling the power generating section, and selecting and setting one protection mode from among the plurality of protection modes for the protection circuit, based on the scope information.
Abstract:
An image pickup apparatus includes: a second clock generation portion configured to generate a second clock, which is set independently of and asynchronously with the first clock; a second vertical synchronizing signal generation portion configured to generate a second vertical synchronizing signal, according to the second clock and the first vertical synchronizing signal; a sensor synchronization control signal generation portion configured to generate a sensor synchronization control signal, according to the second clock and the second vertical synchronizing signal; and the image pickup device configured to pick up an image of an object according to the sensor synchronization control signal, and according to the internal vertical synchronizing drive timing.
Abstract:
An imaging device includes: an imaging unit; a drive signal generation unit configured to generate and output a plurality of drive signals for driving the imaging unit; a differential converter configured to convert one of the plurality of drive signals into a differential signal; a pair of signal lines configured to transmit the differential signal and configured such that impedance matching does not occur at a terminal of one of the pair of signal lines; and an adjustment unit configured to send a detecting signal to the one of the pair of signal lines, and to adjust characteristics of at least one of the plurality of drive signals based on a time period from when the detecting signal is sent until the detecting signal is reflected and returned from the terminal of the one of the pair of signal lines.