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US 11,759,094 B2Granted
Medical surgery imaging system for processing visual content transferred over a wireless network
Assignee270 Surgical Ltd.
InventorAvraham Levy
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Abstract
A medical imaging system, said system comprises a device configured to be inserted to a patient's body, comprising an elongated tube, comprising two or more cameras for capturing visual content in the vicinity of the device in different directions of view, a wireless module configured to transmit data captured by the two or more cameras to a remote devices, and a video receiving system configured to wirelessly receive and synchronize images captured by the two or more cameras, process the images into video and display the video on one or more display devices.
Claims14
A medical imaging system, comprising:
- a video receiving system comprising one or more display devices and a wireless receiver, and
- a medical imaging device configured to be inserted into a patient's body, said medical imaging device comprises
- an elongated tube, said tube comprising:
- two or more camera modules placed at one end of the elongated tube and configured to capture a visual content in the vicinity of the device in different directions of view, such that the camera modules capture the visual content from different alternative views of a viewing field and
- a wireless module comprising a wireless transmitter located in the elongated tube and configured to transmit the captured visual content to the wireless receiver;
- wherein the wireless module further comprises an image processor configured to:
- receive visual content from each of the two or more camera modules;
- identify a redundant content that appears in the visual content captured by each of the two or more camera modules;
- remove the redundant content from a content to be transmitted;
- assemble the content to be transmitted into one unified visual content stream transmitted from the wireless module to the video receiving system;
- wherein the video receiving system is located outside of the medical imaging device;
- wherein the video receiving system is configured to wirelessly receive and synchronize images captured by the two or more camera modules, process the images into video and display the video on one or more display devices.
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