System and method for displaying images of a medical imaging endoscope

A method for displaying a video configuration of at least two cameras of a medical imaging endoscope by a medical imaging system comprises a processing unit operatively connected with the medical imaging endoscope and with a monitor, the method comprising:

• receiving at least two video data streams captured by at least two cameras located at the medical imaging endoscope in the processing unit;
• receiving from the medical imaging system a video mode defining a layout of the at least two video data streams;
• performing a video interpolation on each of the at least two video data streams based on the received video mode;
• generating a video configuration from the at least two video data streams, wherein the video configuration defines each video data stream of the at least two video data streams is different in one or more video characteristics;
• transmitting the video configuration to the monitor, and
• displaying the video configuration layout on the monitor, such that the at least two video data streams are displayed simultaneously.

A method for displaying a video configuration based on video streams captured by three cameras of a medical imaging endoscope by a medical imaging system comprises a processing unit operatively connected with the medical imaging endoscope and with a monitor, the method comprising:

• receiving three video data streams captured by the three cameras located within the medical imaging endoscope in the processing unit;
• receiving from the medical imaging system a video mode defining a layout of the three video data streams into four video displays, to be simultaneously displayed on the monitor;
• performing a video interpolation on each of the three video data streams based on the video mode;
• generating a video configuration based on the three video data streams, wherein the video configuration comprises three video displays having different video characteristics, each display of the three displays is provided from a different video stream of the characters each video data stream in different size, scale, magnitude, frame rate and video display aspect ratio and wherein the video mode comprises display of the three video data streams at the four video displays;
• setting parameters defining the characterizations of each of the four video displays of the three video data streams in accordance with the received video configuration;
• transmitting the video configuration to the monitor, and
• displaying the video configuration layout defined by the video mode of the three video data streams on four video displays simultaneously.

A medical imaging system comprising:

• a monitor, and
• a medical imaging endoscope comprising three cameras adapted to capture a front video stream and two side video streams, and a handle,
• wherein the medical imaging system comprises a control means configured to receive commands from a user of the medical imaging system and send control commands to a processing unit,
• wherein the processing unit is operatively connected with the medical imaging endoscope and the monitor,
• wherein the processing unit comprises a circuitry board configured to perform a video interpolation on each video stream of the front video stream and the two side video streams based on a video mode in order to display a video configuration on the monitor,
• wherein the video configuration comprises three video displays concurrently to provide a panoramic view based on an overlap between field of views of the three cameras,
• wherein the processing unit is utilized to receive the front video stream and the two side video streams into a single, panoramic video frame, based on an overlap between field of views of the three cameras;
• wherein the video configuration comprises and display on a first area of the monitor a larger centric video display and display on a second area of the monitor one of the three video streams, according to the video mode.