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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8162822 | Endoscopy device with integrated RFID and external network capability A unit of equipment designed for use in endoscopic surgery includes radio frequency identification (RFID) circuitry and a network interface. The RFID circuitry can be used to store information of various types, such as component usage tracking information, user pref... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8137265 | Endoscope, endoscope system, and switching circuit member for endoscope The present invention relates to an endoscope to perform observation using a plurality of image pick up units and an endoscope system including such an endoscope, and its object is to provide an endoscope and an endoscope system having a simplified structure and a r... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8128555 | In-vivo information acquiring apparatus An in-vivo information acquiring apparatus includes an information acquiring unit that acquires in-vivo information, a transmitting unit that transmits the in-vivo information to an outside of a living body, a power source that serves to supply power to the informat... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8128556 | Body-insertable apparatus with power supply control A body-insertable apparatus includes: an illuminating unit that illuminates the inside of a subject's body; an imaging unit that takes an image of the inside of the subject's body; a first power supplying unit that supplies electric power to the imaging unit; a seco... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8123677 | Body-insertable apparatus A body-insertable apparatus including a capsule-like casing, an illuminating unit, an imaging unit, and an antenna is provided. The capsule-like casing is formed in a capsule-like shape and includes a transparent imaging dome. The illuminating unit is arranged in th... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8066632 | Teleoperated endoscopic capsule equipped with active locomotion system A teleoperated endoscopic capsule for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes inside an animal body cavity, comprising a body (1) with a plurality of locomotion modules (5) placed on its surface, suitable for moving said body in the body cavity. The capsul... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8038600 | Medical system A medical system includes: a medical device to be inserted into the body cavity; a rotating device for the medical device for rotating the medical device around the insertion axis; an image pickup device provided to the medical device; and an image capturing timing ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8038601 | Wireless in-vivo information acquiring system, body-insertable device, and external device A pill inserted into a body of a patient acquires in-vivo information on the body of the patient. A receiver disposed on the outside of the body receives the in-vivo information on the body of the patient from the pill through an antenna. When a power supply signal ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8038599 | Wireless in-vivo information acquiring apparatus, wireless in-vivo information acquiring system, and communication apparatus A communication apparatus (3) arranged outside a subject (1) has an external device (32) which sequentially transmits control signals. A capsule endoscope (2) is introduced inside the subject (1). Thereafter, a system control circu... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7998063 | Intro-subject introduction apparatus, extracorporeal receiving apparatus, and intra-subject information gathering system An intro-subject introduction apparatus which is introduced into the inside of a subject and is movable inside the subject includes an information acquisition section for acquiring intra-subject information. A wireless transmission section transmits a transmission s... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7993263 | Method and portable device for displaying an image from a capsule type medical device A method of displaying an image in a subject is provided. The method including: capturing an image using a capsule type medical device introduced into the subject; generating a wireless signal of the image; receiving the wireless signal of the image at the outside o... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7976461 | Endoscopy device with integrated RFID and external network capability A unit of equipment designed for use in endoscopic surgery includes radio frequency identification (RFID) circuitry and a network interface. The RFID circuitry can be used to store information of various types, such as component usage tracking information, user pref... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7959560 | Body insertable apparatus having a protection circuit A protection circuit 26c detects a voltage at a point A on an electric-power supply path from a battery 29 to an intra-capsule function executing circuit 30. When the voltage at the point A becomes smaller than a predetermined threshold v... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7951070 | Object observation system and method utilizing three dimensional imagery and real time imagery during a procedure An object observation method and system including an endoscope, at least one treating device, a first detecting portion for detecting information indicating an observation direction of the endoscope, a second detecting portion for detecting information indicating a ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7942812 | Endoscopic apparatus and diagnosis system A diagnosis system composed of a fluoroscopic apparatus for obtaining a fluoroscopic image of an internal body be radiating x-rays to the body, and an endocopic apparatus for obtaining an optical image of the internal body part to be observed by inserting an inserti... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7922653 | Medical system A medical system including a capsule type medical device having a capsule configuration, an operation device, arranged external to the capsule type medical device, and including a generator circuit for generating a particular pattern signal, a switch, arranged in th... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7850601 | Endoscope having non-contact charging apparatus The endoscope has an elongated insertion portion, an operation portion provided at the rear end of the insertion portion, and a contact-less endoscope exterior body in which no electrical contact is exposed on the outer surface thereof including the insertion portio... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7841981 | Body-insertable device system and body-insertable device guiding method An object of the present invention is that the examiner easily picks up a series of images over a desired region in a desired digestive tract without such troublesome examination work that the examiner successively knows the imaging field to the inside of the digest... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7841980 | Treatment system, trocar, treatment method and calibration method A treatment system includes a guide component that is used to insert a treatment tool into a body cavity, a tilt sensor that is provided in the guide component and detects an angle of inclination of the treatment tool that has been inserted inside the guide componen... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7837618 | Endoscope control system In an endoscope control system, endoscope devices capture an image of each inspection site, write endoscope information in a title and/or a text of an electronic mail, and transmit the captured image in the electronic mail which has a captured image management compu... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7837617 | Intrabody introduced device An intrabody introduced device comprising: a power storage section for supplying driving power to a function executing section; a detecting section for detecting a supply voltage of the power storage section; and a timing output section for outputting a detection si... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7819799 | System and method for controlling force applied to and manipulation of medical instruments Apparatus for controlling force applied to and for manipulation of a surgical instrument. Movement and/or forces applied to the surgical instrument are preferably sensed within the apparatus. An actuator is preferably used to apply force to the surgical instrument f... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7811227 | Endoscope apparatus and communication method used in the apparatus An endoscope apparatus includes an endoscope, a signal processing unit, and a communication unit. The endoscope includes an information storage section including an endoscope information memory and a first controller controlling readout of the information in the end... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7803108 | In-vivo image acquiring apparatus, receiving apparatus, and in-vivo information acquiring system An object of the present invention is to enable a receiving side to easily recognize which of imaging devices has picked up received image data. A capsule endoscope (one example of the in-vivo image acquiring apparatus) of the present invention is swallowed by a sub... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7798958 | Medical device control system A medical device control system improves an inducing stability and operability of a medical device having its direction controlled with magnetism, which is used for the inspection or treatment in a subject's body. The control system is formed of a medical device inc... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7766818 | Electronic endoscope system An electronic endoscope system according to the present invention has a video-scope that has an image sensor, and a light source unit that is capable of selectively emitting normal-light and excitation-light. The electronic endoscope system further has a signal proc... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7758496 | Diagnostic system using endoscope In a diagnostic system, a diagnostic unit for an operator of an electronic endoscope and a diagnostic unit for an instructor are in half-duplex radio communication. An inquiry that is input as a voice signal through a microphone into the electronic endoscope is supe... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7749158 | Electronic endoscope An electronic endoscope has a video-scope with an image sensor and a video-processor. The electronic endoscope has a first memory, a second memory, and a program data transmitter. The first memory is provided in the video-scope, and is capable of storing program dat... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7722531 | Medical instrument with a non-contact readable data carrier The present invention relates to a medical instrument comprising an instrument body. The instrument body comprises at least one outer surface, and a recess is disposed in said instrument body. A non-contact readable data carrier is embedded in said recess, wherein m... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7704205 | System and method of obtaining images of a subject using a capsule type medical device A system and method is provided for obtaining images of a subject using a capsule type medical device, The method performs the steps of preparing a swallowable capsule type medical device including at least an imaging device and a memory for storing a setting associ... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7662090 | Endoscope system An endoscope system includes an endoscope switching device 3 to which a plurality of endoscope devices are simultaneously connected, and an endoscope control device which controls the plurality of endoscope devices via the endoscope switching device 3.... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7625336 | Electronic endoscope system with functionally alterable operable members An electronic endoscope system for observing living tissues inside a body cavity includes an illuminating apparatus having a white light source emitting white light and an excitation light source emitting excitation light, an electronic endoscope including an insert... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7615006 | Electronic endoscope battery section A battery section of an electronic endoscope is provided with an EEPROM. The EEPROM stores charging time and the number of charging of batteries, necessary for calculating remaining power of the batteries, and customized information for assigning functions to first,... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7559889 | Endoscope system An endoscope includes a storage device. The storage device is configured to store ownership information. The ownership information indicates a term for which the endoscope is allowed to be utilized. ... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7520854 | Endoscope system allowing movement of a display image Rotate instructing switches 26, 27, and 28 of an operating remote controller 5 are pressed and then a CPU 12 controls image processing of an image pickup processing portion 8, a direction calculation processing portion 10, a... | 04/21/2009 |
| 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 |
| 7430457 | Robot teaching program editing apparatus based on voice input Candidate character strings representing objects disposed in a work cell, models for robot operation instructions which has variable parts, and robot commands related to the objects are defined in advance. By inputting a query such as ‘Workpiece 1 ?’ by voice, t... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7427263 | Method and interface for operating a variable direction of view endoscope A method and system are provided for configuring a variable direction of view endoscope generally comprising a graphical user interface and an endoscope having a view controlling device for moving the view vector between predefined, discrete view vector positions. T... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7419468 | Wireless in-vivo information acquiring system and body-insertable device A pill inserted into a body of a patient acquires in-vivo information on the body of the patient. The in-vivo information on the body of the patient is input to a receiver from the pill through a receiving antenna. The pill receives a power-supply signal from the re... | 09/02/2008 |
| 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 |
