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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8167789 | Image processing system and method for body-insertable apparatus An image processing system includes an orientation specifying unit that specifies orientation of the body-insertable apparatus at the time of capturing the image data with respect to a reference direction, a rotation correcting unit that performs rotation correction... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8152713 | Capsule endoscope with illumination board section and method of assembling A capsule endoscope including: an illumination board section on which an illumination portion is arranged; a lens support member that supports a lens; a hole that pierces through the illumination board section, the lens support member being fitted in the hole; and a... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8079950 | Autofocus and/or autoscaling in telesurgery Robotic, telerobotic, and/or telesurgical devices, systems, and methods take advantage of robotic structures and data to calculate changes in the focus of an image capture device in response to movement of the image capture device, a robotic end effector, or the lik... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8043209 | System and method for transmitting the content of memory storage in an in-vivo sensing device A method and system for in-vivo sensing includes transmitting data that relates to data stored in a memory area located in the sensing device. The data that relates to data stored in a memory area may be transmitted in a data block, and the data block may include se... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7998059 | Endoscopic imaging apparatus and capsule-type endoscope An endoscopic imaging includes an image sensor having a polygonal outline; a lens for focusing an image onto the image sensor; a lens support member abutting on the image sensor, and supporting the lens; and an abutting portion formed while extending from a lower ed... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7976459 | Portable endoscope for intubation A portable, low power, low cost, endoscope having a removable probe with a miniature digital CCD imager, single white LED illuminator and an imaging lens on the distal end and a miniature multi pin connector on the proximal end; both ends connected with a multi trac... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7946979 | Immobilizable in vivo sensing device An in vivo sensing device including an immobilizer that may immobilize the device in an in vivo location. The immobilizer may be activated by for example a processor or in response to an in vivo condition or in response to a signal from an outside operator. ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7938771 | Endoscope image pick-up apparatus An image pick-up unit inserted in the body picks up an image of the body, and transmits by radio the image to an extra-corporeal unit which is arranged outside the body. The image pick-up unit includes an image pick-up portion capturing an image, a data transmitting... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7931585 | Transmitting apparatus, receiving apparatus, and body-insertable apparatus system A transmitting apparatus which externally transmits a radio signal containing at least a main information portion, includes a main information output unit that outputs a signal containing the main information portion; a dummy component output unit that outputs a dum... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7922652 | Endoscope system An endoscope that is free from a dead area and capable of preventing the physician from overlooking any nidus is an endoscope for taking the inside of digestive organs, and the endoscope is provided with an omnidirectional camera (32), a light (34), a ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7914442 | Endoscopic smart probe and method An improved endoscopic device which is introduced into the intestinal tract of a living organism and which operates autonomously therein, adapted to obtain and store or transmit one or more types of data such as visual image data, laser autofluorescence data, or ult... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7892164 | Capsule medical apparatus A capsule medical apparatus including: a cylindrical capsule-shaped exterior casing; a plurality of electrical substrates stored in the exterior casing; a connecting member using a plurality of soldering balls or a plurality of pins, the connecting member being elec... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7857751 | Electronic endoscope system including image synthesizing processor An electronic endoscope system has a video-scope, an illumination apparatus, an imaging device, and an image synthesizing processor. The illumination apparatus illuminates a normal light and an excitation-light from the video-scope onto an object. The normal light i... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7857752 | Medical image processing apparatus and medical image processing method A medical image processing apparatus having an image conversion section including a coordinate-system converting section for converting an image in an orthogonal coordinate system to an image in a polar coordinate system, for geometrically converting a medical image... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7850599 | Endoscope apparatus An endoscope apparatus comprises: an endoscope comprising an imaging device that forms a color image signal of a body to be observed; a storage portion that stores matrix data regarding a wavelength range in which a spectral image is constituted; a spectral image fo... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7850598 | Endoscope apparatus for performing measurement using image A CPU includes: an original image recording function for recording a still image or a recorded image as an original image; a contrast correction function for performing contrast correction on a still image or a recorded image; a coordinate calculation function for c... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7837614 | Capsule medical apparatus having movable frame to which a portion of an objective optical system is fixed A capsule medical apparatus including: an illuminating unit; an image pick-up unit; an objective optical system; a sealed capsule container which seals the above components; a fixing frame to which a first objective lens of the objective optical system is fixed, the... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7833151 | In vivo imaging device with two imagers A substantially spherical in vivo imaging device may be used for imaging body lumens in the GI tract. The imaging device may include for example a ballast weight for setting a preferred orientation of the device within the body lumen. The substantially spherical sha... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7828721 | Electronic endoscope An insertion unit has a channel through which a treatment tool can be inserted. A distal end of the insertion unit has a single-focus objective optical system or a focal-point-variable objective optical system to focus the optical image on a light receiving surface ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7789823 | Endoscope and endoscope apparatus This endoscope is equipped with a fixed focus image pickup unit which is constructed of an objective optical system, and a solid state color image pickup device in which a color filter is arranged every pixel, the solid state image pickup device fulfilling a conditi... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7762946 | Electronic endoscope system capable of displaying a plurality of images An electronic endoscope system, which is adapted to observe a fluorescence image of autofluorescence emitted from a body cavity wall irradiated with excitation light as well as a normal image of the body cavity wall illuminated with white light on a display device, ... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7762947 | Capsule endoscope and capsule endoscope system A capsule endoscope, which is inserted into a subject and picking up an image inside the subject, includes an illuminating unit that illuminates an interior surface of the subject with illuminating light; an imaging unit that generates an electronic signal correspon... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7727145 | Capsule-type medical device and medical system A method of transmitting images in a subject to an outside of the subject using a wireless signal is provided. The method including: (a) transmitting to the outside of the subject a first signal corresponding to a first image obtained using a first imaging device, b... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7713189 | Video endoscope with a rotatable video camera A video endoscope includes a tube fitted at its distal end with an affixed objective lens, a video camera mounted behind the objective lens in the tube, the camera together with an elongated rotation element constituting a swivel unit that is supported both at the d... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7708686 | Color filter imaging array and method of formation A color filter array pattern for use in a solid-state imager comprising red sensitive elements located at every other array position, with alternating blue sensitive and green sensitive elements located at the remaining array positions, is disclosed. Since red color... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7704204 | Intrabody introduced device and medical device In transmitting images picked up by an intrabody introduced device to outside a test body, synchronizing signals of the image signal are set to signal patterns in the same high-frequency band as for the image signal and not used for the image signal. This enables a ... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7678043 | Device, system and method for in-vivo sensing of a body lumen A system device and a method for imaging and/or for obtaining a sample from, for example, endo-luminal areas. The system may include two or more devices which may be magnetically connected in a body lumen, for example the system may include a first device which may ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7628752 | Image capturing unit for electronic endoscope An image capturing unit for an electronic endoscope is provided with a solid-state image capturing element having multiple boding wires arranged at peripheral positions on a front surface of the solid-state image capturing element, the bonding wires extending outwar... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7591780 | Miniaturized imaging device with integrated circuit connector system A miniaturized imaging device and method of viewing small luminal cavities are described. The imaging device can be used as part of a catheter, and can include a lens, an SSID including an imaging array optically coupled to the lens; an umbilical including a conduct... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7588535 | Apparatus, method and system for intravascular photographic imaging An apparatus, system and method for providing an image enhancing effect for a photographic image of a target region within an intravascular environment. The image enhancing effects may be a physical process based upon the nature of the detected light or based upon d... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7520853 | Updateable endoscopic video imaging system A control unit is detachably coupled to a camera and receptive of the imaging data with a plurality of data processing instructions being stored on the camera and/or the control unit such that when the camera is coupled to the control unit, the plurality of data pro... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7491167 | Image capturing unit for endoscope An image capturing unit for an electronic endoscope, includes an image capturing element with an image capturing area, at least one bonding wire, which is extended curvedly and outwardly from at least one edge portion of a surface of the image capturing element to a... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7485091 | Electronic endoscope system In an electronic endoscope system, an individual channel of a frequency band is allocated to each of a plurality of electronic endoscopes. When a release switch of the electronic endoscope is operated to record an endoscopic image, a picture signal of the endoscopic... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7473218 | Assembling method of capsule medical apparatus An assembling method of a capsule medical apparatus is provided. The capsule medical apparatus includes a sealed capsule container having an image pick-up unit which picks up an image of a portion illuminated by an illuminating unit, and an objective optical system ... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7440005 | Endoscope In an endoscope, scopes that include a scope-side memory and a connector are selectively and detachably connected to a processor that includes a processor-side memory and a connection member. A parameter stored in the scope-side memory can be written to the processo... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7435217 | Scanned beam imagers and endoscopes with positionable light collector Apparatuses and methods for scanned beam imagers and scanned beam endoscopes having a positionable light collector are disclosed. In one aspect, a scanned beam imager includes a scanned beam source operable to scan a beam across a FOV and a light collector structure... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7435215 | Endoscope An inserting portion has, at the proximal end thereof, an operating portion having a bending lever for bending operation. The operating portion has, on the front end side thereof, a grip portion gripped by an operator. The grip portion has therein a plate frame as a... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7429242 | Electronic endoscope apparatus and signal processing apparatus having detachable option substrate An electronic endoscope including a CCD is detachably connected to a video processor. In the video processor, an output signal from the CCD is A/D converted, white balance is adjusted, an NTSC video signal from a post-process circuit is subjected to processing for g... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7419467 | Medical inspection device A dental/medical instrument is provided for use in diagnostic and related patient inspection/examination. The device includes a body having an integral speculum with a video image capture device, a power supply and a display. These components, and user actuatable co... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7413543 | Endoscope with actively cooled illumination sources An endoscopic imaging system includes a reusable control cabinet having a number of actuators that control the orientation of a lightweight endoscope that is connectable thereto. The endoscope is used with a single patient and is then disposed. The endoscope include... | 08/19/2008 |
