Patent ID: 8550987

Claim:
An electronic endoscope apparatus, comprising: a scope and a processor processing equipment for processing an image obtained by the scope, the processing equipment including: a signal processing circuit on a main circuit board; a dedicated image processing circuit board including a plurality of image processing sections, each for performing a different type of image processing on the image, configured such that ON/OFF of functions thereof and/or processing parameters therefor are set individually with respect to each of the image processing sections; and a first memory having at least one area configured to store ON/OFF settings of the functions of each of the image processing sections, and/or the values of the processing parameters used by each of the image processing sections; and a first microcomputer for setting a function of each of the image processing sections to ON or OFF and supplying a predetermined parameter to each of the image processing sections; and an input device for accepting input from a user, and the scope including a second memory having at least one area configured to store ON/OFF setting of the function of each of the image processing sections and/or a value of the processing parameter used by each of the image processing sections, wherein the input device is configured to accept selection input regarding whether to select between a first information, which is information stored in the first memory, and a second information, which is information stored in the second memory, as information to be used in each of the image processing sections; and the first microcomputer of the processing equipment reads one of the first information and the second information according to a user selection accepted by the input device, from the area of the first memory or the area of the second memory, and performs the setting based on the read out information by connecting the signal processing circuit to the dedicated image processing circuit board only in cases that a connection between the signal processing circuit and the dedicated image processing circuit is judged from the read out information to be necessary.