Patent ID: 7683927

Claim:
An electronic endoscope apparatus, comprising: a recording medium which records image data of an object which is formed on the basis of an output of a solid state image pickup device mounted in an electronic scope; judging unit which judges a recordable amount of the image in the recording medium during an examination; a display processing circuit which displays a recording medium exchange message on a display unit when the recordable amount becomes zero; and a control circuit which performs control so as to automatically create a folder for a patient in this recording medium and record image data in this folder for the patient, and when the record of the image data under one examination of the same patient in the recording medium is not completed and the recording medium is replaced with another recording medium, while said electronic scope is functioning performs control so as to transfer patient data to said another recording medium and automatically create another folder for said patient in said another recording medium and record remaining image data in said another folder.