Patent ID: 8902304
Filing Date: 2014-12-02
Classification: A61B,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. An endoscope system comprising: an endoscope including an imaging part that outputs a captured image signal of a subject; and a controller separated from the endoscope and connected to the endoscope through a signal line, the captured image signal output from the imaging part being serially transmitted as digital image data between the endoscope and the controller, wherein the imaging part includes a plurality of light receiving portions two-dimensionally arranged and a driving part that reads a charge signal stored in each of the light receiving portions, wherein the driving part conducts a read scan in which a read of the charge signals from the light receiving portions arranged along each line extending in a main scanning direction corresponding to an arranging direction of the light receiving portions is repeated a plurality of times along a sub scanning direction perpendicular to the main scanning direction, wherein the driving part changes an order of outputting lines in the digital image data by conducting the read scan on all lines included in a captured image so as to scan some lines successively with a prescribed number of lines interlaced along the sub scanning direction and scan the other lines successively from an interlaced line with the prescribed number of lines interlaced, wherein, in the digital image data serially transmitted, the captured image signal is divided correspondingly to each of the lines and detection data that detects a transmission error is provided to every divided line, wherein the controlling unit detects an occurrence of a transmission error by using the detection data and switches the driving part from a first scanning mode to a second scanning mode on a basis of timing of detecting the transmission error, wherein the driving part is switched between the first scanning mode in which the read scan is conducted successively on every line along the sub scanning direction and a second scanning mode in which the read scan is conducted on all the lines included in the captured image by scanning some lines successively with a prescribed number of lines interlaced along the sub scanning direction and scanning the other lines successively from an interlaced line with the prescribed number of lines interlaced, said endoscope system further comprising: a disturbance detecting unit that detects a disturbance that is an error occurrence factor during a serial transmission; and a controlling unit that switches the driving part from the first scanning mode to the second scanning mode when the disturbance detecting unit detects an occurrence of disturbance, wherein in the second scanning mode, a first read scan in which a first line not scanned yet is selected for a horizontal scan for reading charge signals from respective light receiving portions corresponding to the first line and a second read scan in which a second line not scanned yet interlaced by a prescribed number of lines from the first line along the sub scanning direction is selected for the horizontal scan for reading charge signals from respective light receiving portions corresponding to the second line are repeated down to a lower end of the sub scanning direction while keeping the prescribed number of lines as an interval between the first line and the second line, wherein the first read scan and the second read scan are repeated down to the lower end of the sub scanning direction again with a line not scanned yet selected from an upper end of the sub scanning direction.