Patent ID: 7662090

Claim:
An endoscope system comprising: an image combining unit to which a plurality of endoscope devices are connected by wire, the image combining unit being configured to combine video signals outputted from each of the plurality of endoscope devices and to simultaneously display a plurality of endoscope images on a monitor; a selecting unit configured to select a desired endoscope device of the plurality of endoscope devices as a control target, wherein the endoscope device selected as the control target is sensitive to one or more commands, and the endoscope devices not selected as the control target are insensitive to said one or more commands; and a selecting and displaying portion configured to identify the endoscope device selected as the control target; wherein the selecting and display portion, in order to distinguish the endoscope device selected as the control target and set to be sensitive to said one or more commands by the selecting unit, displays the endoscope image obtained by the selected endoscope device in a bold-line frame.