Loading patent…
AssigneeOlympus Medical Systems Corp.
InventorKei Mitsuhashi
Estimating the term…
An in-vivo image acquiring system having a body-insertable apparatus and a processing apparatus. The body-insertable apparatus has an imaging unit which captures images of the inside of the subject, and a transmitting unit which attaches type information to the image information and transmits the image information to the outside of the subject. The processing apparatus has an image processing unit which acquires optical information corresponding to the type information attached to image information to be processed and processes the image information to be processed using an image processing program which corresponds to the acquired optical information. The type information indicates an applied portion of the body-insertable apparatus. The processing apparatus also processes image information corresponding to portions other than the applied portions of the body-insertable apparatus as image information to be processed.
An in-vivo image acquiring system comprising:
An in-vivo image processing method for processing image information including images of an inside of a subject which are wirelessly transmitted from a body-insertable apparatus introduced inside the subject, the in-vivo image processing method comprising the steps of:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.
Drawings are temporarily unavailable. Open the PDF at USPTO
From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.
Combined with photographic or television appliances: capsule endoscopes for imaging
Of image signals during a use of endoscope: for image enhancement
Characterised by signal transmission: using wireless means
Medical diagnosis and surgery
About 4 years of term left · ends 14 Oct 2030 (estimated)
This application is based upon and claims the benefit of priority from Japanese Patent Application No. 2007-226973, filed Aug. 31, 2007, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an in-vivo image acquiring system which acquires an image of an inside of a subject, an in-vivo image processing method, and a body-insertable apparatus.
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an overall configuration of an in-vivo image acquiring system according to an embodiment;
FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a configuration of a capsule endoscope shown in FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of an image signal transmitted from the capsule endoscope shown in FIG. 1;
Exemplary embodiments of a wireless-transmission in-vivo image acquiring system and a body-inserting apparatus of the present invention (referred to below simply as “embodiments”) are described with reference to the drawings. The present invention is not limited to the embodiments. Further, same numerals are attached to identical components.
[Configuration of In-Vivo Image Acquiring System]
The embodiment of the present invention is described. FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an overall configuration of an in-vivo image acquiring system according to an embodiment. The in-vivo image acquiring system employs a monocular capsule endoscope as an example of a body-inserting apparatus. As shown in FIG. 1, the wireless in-vivo image acquiring system includes a capsule endoscope 2 which is introduced inside a subject 1 and captures intracelomic images, and wirelessly transmits data such as an image signal to a receiving apparatus 3, a receiving apparatus which receives the data of the intracelomic images wirelessly transmitted from the capsule endoscope 2, a processing apparatus 4 which displays the intracelomic images based on the image signal received by the receiving apparatus 3, and a portable storage medium 5 used for transferring data between the receiving apparatus 3 and the processing apparatus 4.