Patent ID: 8096942

Claim:
An endoscope system comprising: a video processor for supplying an image data signal, obtained by signal processing an image pickup signal from an endoscope, to a monitor; a remote controller; an endoscope balloon control device connected to the remote controller, the endoscope balloon control device comprising: a first pump for supplying or discharging a gas to or from an endoscope side balloon arranged to an insertion portion of the endoscope; a first control portion for controlling a pressure in the endoscope side balloon; and a first inflation-state detection portion for detecting an inflation state of the endoscope side balloon on the basis of one or more of states of the first pump, a flow rate of the gas supplied to or discharged from the endoscope side balloon, and the pressure in the endoscope side balloon; and a first inflation-state information output portion provided at the video processor or the remote controller, the first inflation-state information output portion outputting, on the basis of the inflation state of the endoscope side balloon detected by the first inflation-state detecting portion, (i) information indicating one of an endo scope side balloon inflation mode and an endoscope side balloon deflation mode, and (ii) information indicating whether the endoscope balloon control device is in an operation state, the combination of which indicates the endoscope side balloon as being in one of an inflating state, an inflation completion state, a deflating state, and a deflation completion state.