Patent ID: 7218340

Claim:
A video-scope of an electronic endoscope apparatus, which has an image sensor and which is selectively connectable to plural types of video-processors, the video-scope comprising: a memory that stores a plurality of register setting data, said plurality of register setting data being associated with signal processes for processing image signals read from said image sensor, said plurality of register setting data associated with the plural types of video-processors, the register setting data being defined in accordance with at least one of a characteristic of a signal processing circuit that is provided in each of the plural types of video-processors, a characteristic of a light source unit that has a light source and a collecting mirror and a characteristic of a collecting optical system that collects light from the light source so that the light enters a fiber-optic bundle provided in said video-scope; a signal processor that is provided in said video-scope and that processes the image signals; a video-processor detector that detects type information of a video-processor connected to said video-scope; and a data setter that reads register setting data corresponding to the detected type information from said memory; and that writes the register setting data in a register provided in said signal processor, wherein said signal processor processes the image signals in accordance with the register setting data in said register.