Stephan Klöckner

Different Gain Control Modes: No Gain Control --> Britness is set via the LS by the user. standard gain Control --> Camara control unit (CCU) set the ligth intensety via the captured immage. Communication between LS und CCU is nessesary. Full automatic gain control --> CCU know the type of the LS and the opiticla caracteristrics via white balance. Ligth intensety will be set accordint to the actual live image ans these parameters. If there is a unknown LS the CCU will improve image brigthness by...

So far any Olympus Surgical Generator has a fixed mapping between the physical connector and the channel for the mode definition. There are no interchangebal properties.

Information that the "Active Terminal" is part of the HF-Generator.

ACTIVE OUTPUT TERMINAL-oriented HF SURGICAL EQUIPMENT: The operating concept of the HF SURGICAL Generator. The Terminal is direct linked to the generator and independen from the Equipment. This should be stated clear within the definition.

This is a shutter mode at the CCD imager. It reduce the exposure time at the CCD to avoid the signal seturation on the imager. This mode could be use as a automatic setup or manualy by the user.

This mode change the brigthness adjustment for Laser applications. First the measurement for the auto adjustment is adopted. Second the speed for the feedback control is adopted. Tartget is to avoid an extreme brigthness change during the use of a Laser.

As long as the instrument provides not the information by itself, we should only limit this to the possible HF-mode. There is no need for the configuration of the instrument type for the standard devices.

There are two scenarios: For Instruments that have an identification (include presettings) to the HF generator, it is known if the instrument is plugged or not. For "standard" instruments this is not always given. Some HF generators allows an HF-output without connected Instrument. As we are not able to have this information in any cases, the HF-output must be possible although it is not soure if the instrument is connected.