Patent ID: 8665327

Claim:
An endoscope system including an endoscope which includes an illumination optical system having a fluorescent substance and an imaging optical system having an imaging element; and a control device which is connected to the endoscope, the control device including a light source unit having a semiconductor light emitting element generating excitation light used to excite the fluorescent substance, a storage section storing predetermined color correction information, and an image processing section creating captured image data by performing a calculation process on an image signal output from the imaging element on the basis of the color correction information, the endoscope system comprising: an optical characteristic detecting unit for detecting at least one of optical characteristics of the fluorescent substance and the semiconductor light emitting element; and a color correction information correcting unit for correcting the color correction information stored in the storage section on the basis of the optical characteristic detected by the optical characteristic detecting unit, wherein the optical characteristic detecting unit includes a light emission intensity detector which detects light emission intensity of the semiconductor light emitting element, wherein the color correction information correcting unit corrects the color correction information on the basis of a difference between a stipulated value of the light emission intensity of the semiconductor light emitting element and a measured value of the light emission intensity of the semiconductor light emitting element detected by the light emission intensity detector, and wherein, in a case where the endoscope connected to the control device is exchanged, the color correction information is newly created in accordance with at least one of optical characteristics of the fluorescent substance and the semiconductor light emitting element of the endoscope which is connected after the exchange, and the color correction information is updated.