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US 11,298,013 B2Granted
Apparatus and methods for performing body imaging
AssigneeTyto Care Ltd.
InventorsDavid Gilad-Gilor, Uri Dubin, Eyal Bychkov
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Abstract
An otoscope, comprising: (a) a flexible speculum, operable to be inserted into an ear canal; (b) a stopper, coupled to the flexible speculum, operable to limit penetration depth of the flexible speculum into the ear canal; and (c) an imaging sensor, located inside the flexible speculum, operable to capture an image of an eardrum of the ear canal; wherein a flexibility of the flexible speculum allows alignment of the imaging sensor according to a shape of the ear canal.
Claims20
An otoscope, the otoscope comprising:
- a flexible speculum, operable to be inserted into an ear canal, the flexible speculum comprising:
- a rigid tip including a digital imaging sensor operable to capture an image of an eardrum of the ear canal, the rigid tip being at a distal end of the flexible speculum;
- and
- a flexible part coupling the rigid tip and a base of the flexible speculum, wherein the flexible part has a first flexibility, enabling the flexible speculum to bend, during an insertion thereof into the ear canal, in a manner that blocks any line of sight between a leading plane of the flexible speculum and the base of the flexible speculum, wherein the rigid tip has a second flexibility that is less than the first flexibility;
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- wherein the digital imaging sensor is capable of capturing the image of the eardrum when a bending of the flexible speculum blocks any line of sight between the leading plane of the flexible speculum and the base of the flexible speculum.
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A method for intraaural imaging, the method comprising:
- inserting a flexible speculum into an ear canal, the flexible spectrum comprising:
- (a) a rigid tip including a digital imaging sensor, the rigid tip being at a distal end of the flexible speculum and (b) a flexible part coupling the rigid tip and a base of the flexible speculum, wherein the flexible part has a first flexibility, wherein the rigid tip has a second flexibility that is less than the first flexibility, and wherein the inserting causes bending of the flexible speculum inside the ear canal;
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- after the digital imaging sensor captures an image of an eardrum of the ear canal, removing the flexible speculum from the ear canal;
- wherein the digital imaging sensor is capable of capturing the image of the eardrum when the bending of the flexible speculum blocks any line of sight between a leading plane of the flexible speculum and the base of the flexible speculum;
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- wherein the first flexibility of the flexible part enables the flexible speculum to bend, during the inserting, to block any line of sight between the leading plane of the flexible speculum and the base of the flexible speculum.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.