Patent ID: 8638361
Filing Date: 2014-01-28
Classification: A61B,H04L

Abstract:
1. An endoscope apparatus comprising an endoscope including an image pickup device and a transmission device, and a processor including a reception device communicating with the transmission device, wherein the transmission device of the endoscope comprises: a first subtraction section calculating a first subtraction value obtained by subtracting a number of bits having a second value from a number of bits having a first value in input data constituted by a collection of a predetermined number of bits each of which has the first or the second value, the input data being image data of a video signal from the image pickup device; a first data processing section performing a first predetermined process for the input data to generate intermediate data constituted by the predetermined number of bits; a second subtraction section calculating a second subtraction value obtained by subtracting the number of bits having the second value from the number of bits having the first value in the intermediate data; a first accumulation section calculating a cumulative value of the second subtraction value; and a transmission section transmitting the intermediate data by a serial signal; wherein the first predetermined process is a process of: comparing a sign of the first subtraction value of the input data and a sign of the cumulative value of the first accumulation section; generating the intermediate data by exchanging the first value and the second value with each other for all the bits of the input data and generating predetermined information indicating inversion of all the bits when the sign of the first subtraction value and the sign of the cumulative value are the same sign; and setting the input data as the intermediate data when the sign of the first subtraction value and the sign of the cumulative value are different signs; the transmission section causes the predetermined information of each input data to be included in a blanking period in the video signal so that the predetermined information is collectively transmitted; and the reception device of the processor comprises: a serial reception section receiving the serial signal and outputting the serial signal as received data for each predetermined number of bits; a second data processing section generating, for the received data, output data by exchanging the first value and the second value with each other for all the bits of the received data when the predetermined information is generated, and generating the received data which is received as the output data when the predetermined information is not generated; a third subtraction section calculating a third subtraction value obtained by subtracting the number of bits having the second value from the number of bits having the first value in the received data; a second accumulation section calculating a cumulative value of the third subtraction value; and an abnormality detection section comparing a sign of the third subtraction value of the received data and a sign of the cumulative value of the second accumulation section, and, when the sign of the third subtraction value and the sign of the cumulative value of the second accumulation section are the same sign, generating predetermined error information.