Patent ID: 7485091

Claim:
An electronic endoscope system comprising a plurality of electronic endoscopes, each of said electronic endoscopes comprising: an imaging device for obtaining an image signal from a site to observe inside a body cavity; a device for digitalizing the image signal into a picture signal and producing a radio frequency signal from the picture signal through quadrature modulation; a control member manually operated to enter a command for recording the picture signal as an endoscopic image; a sender for sending the radio frequency signal as an electric wave, wherein an individual channel of a frequency band for the electric wave is allocated to each of said electronic endoscopes; and a header attaching section for attaching a header to the radio frequency signal when said control member is operated, said header being representative of the channel allocated to said electronic endoscope for sending the radio frequency signal; and wherein said electronic endoscope system comprises a data supervising apparatus for supervising diagnostic data including the endoscopic images obtained through said electronic endoscopes, said data supervising apparatus comprising: a receiver for receiving the radio frequency signals as the electric waves from said electronic endoscopes; a demodulator for demodulating the radio frequency signals into the original picture signals; a signal processing device for producing the endoscopic images from the picture signals; an input-output controller for sorting the endoscopic images according to the channels represented by the headers attached to the radio frequency signals; and a plurality of data storages provided for the individual channels, to record and store the endoscopic images as sorted by said input-output controller.