Patent ID: 7048686

Claim:
An endoscope system comprising: an endoscope including a section insertable into a body, a holding section to be arranged outside the body and connected to the section insertable into the body to control the same, and an image pickup element which picks up an image inside the body; a processing device which processes a signal obtained through the image pickup element and generates an image signal; an image display system physically removed from the endoscope; a white LED light source arranged in the endoscope; a color compensating filter, located in front of at least one of the image pickup element and the white LED light source, for compensating for a light component that has high emission intensity in the emission spectrum of the white LED light source; and a data transmitting and receiving device configured to wirelessly transmit and receive data associated with the image signal over a network environment set outside the body; with the image display system receiving the data from the network environment and displaying an image corresponding to the image inside the body picked up by the image pickup element.