Wearable jacket for diagnosis and endoscope system employing wearable jacket

• US 20050194012A1
• Filed: 03/07/2005
• Published: 09/08/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/08/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Pentax Corporation (Hoya Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Pentax Corporation (Hoya Corporation)
• Inventors: Matsumoto, Mitsuhiro, Ito, Eiichi, Tsuda, Koji, Honjo, Masayuki
• Application Number:
  US11/072,524
• Publication Number:
  US 20050194012A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 128/899
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/04 combined with photographic or television appliances
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/041 Capsule endoscopes for imaging

Abstract

A wearable jacket includes a 2D-DST substrate shaped to cover a body of a subject person. The 2D-DST substrate include a conductive sheet, and a plurality of communication modules distributed on the conductive sheet. At least one communication module is provided with a connector portion to which one of a predetermined types of functional unit is electrically connected.

Claims

1. A wearable jacket, comprising:

a 2D-DST substrate shaped to cover a body of a subject person,

the 2D-DST substrate including;

a conductive sheet; and

a plurality of communication modules distributed on the conductive sheet, at least one communication module of the plurality of communication modules being provided with a connector portion to which one of predetermined types of functional unit is electrically connected.

2. A wearable jacket system, comprising:

a 2D-DST substrate shaped to cover a body of a subject person,

the 2D-DST substrate including a conductive sheet and a plurality of communication modules distributed on the conductive sheet, at least one communication module of the plurality of communication modules being provided with a connector portion; and

a plurality of types of functional units, any one of the plurality of predetermined types of functional unit is electrically connected to the connector portion of the at least one communication module.

3. The wearable jacket system according to claim 2, wherein the plurality of types of functional units include one of a body temperature sensor, a sensor for measuring a breathing rate, cardiac rate or blood pressure, a blood flow sensor, a sensor for measuring oxygen saturation degree, a sensor for detecting sweat, a sensor for detecting uric acid level, a sensor for detecting an occurrence of bleeding, electrodes for cardiographic measurement, and a communication unit that receives a signal transmitted by an external device.

4. The wearable jacket system according to claim 2, comprising a controlling system that determines a transmission path of data in accordance with a 2D-DST technology, the controlling system storing data received via the transmission path to a predetermined recording medium.

5. The wearable jacket system according to claim 4, wherein the controlling system includes a data conversion system that converts the received data so as to be displayed on a display device.

6. The wearable jacket system according to claim 4, wherein the controlling system further includes an interface to which a removable recording medium is selectively connected, the controlling system storing the data in the removable recording medium via the interface.

7. The wearable jacket system according to claim 6, wherein the controlling system is capable of communicating an external device via a wireless communication, the data being transmitted to the external device via the wireless communication.

8. The wearable jacket system according to claim 4,

wherein the plurality of types of units have different pieces of ID information,

wherein the at least one communication module of the plurality of communication modules obtains the ID information of a unit connected to the at least one communication module of the plurality of communication modules and transmits the obtained ID information along with ID information of the at least one communication module of the plurality of communication modules.

9. The wearable jacket system according to claim 8,

wherein when at least one communication module of the plurality of communication modules is connected with a communication unit capable of receiving a signal transmitted by an external device, the controlling system controls the at least one communication module of the plurality of communication modules to transmit the signal received from the external device and body information other than the signal transmitted by the external device at every predetermined period.

10. The wearable jacket system according to claim 8,

wherein when at least one communication module of the plurality of communication modules is connected with a communication unit capable of receiving a signal transmitted by an external device, the controlling system controls the at least one communication module of the plurality of communication modules to transmit the signal received from the external device and body information other than the signal transmitted by the external device periodically at different timings, respectively.

11. The wearable jacket system according to claim 10,

wherein the controlling system controls the at least one communication module of the plurality of communication modules to transmit the signal received from the external device at every first predetermined period and to transmit the body information other than the signal transmitted from the external device at every second predetermined period, which is longer than the first predetermined period.

12. The wearable jacket system according to claim 9, wherein the controlling system selects an optimum communication module mounting a communication unit from among the plurality of communication modules at every third predetermined period which is longer that the predetermine period.

13. The wearable jacket system according to claim 2, wherein the plurality of types of functional units include a communication unit that is capable of at least one of a function of transmitting a signal carrying predetermined information to an external device and another function of receiving a signal transmitted by the external device.

14. The wearable jacket system according to claim 13, wherein the predetermined information includes at least one of a signal that supplies electrical power to the external device and a signal that controls an operation of the external device.

15. An endoscope system comprising a capsule endoscope having a communication function and a wearable jacket system,

the capsule endoscope comprising:

an imaging device that captures an image; and

a wireless communicating system that transmits image data representing the captured image toward the wearable jacket system,

the wearable jacket system comprising;

a 2D-DST substrate shaped to cover a body of a subject person, the 2D-DST substrate including a conductive sheet and a plurality of communication modules distributed on the conductive sheet, at least one communication module being provided with a connector portion;

a plurality of types of functional units, any one of the predetermined types of functional units being electrically connected to the connector portion of the at least one communication module, the at least one communication module including a reception module which is a communication module connected with a communication unit via the connector portion, the communication unit being capable of receiving the image data transmitted by the wireless communicating system of the capsule endoscope; and

a displaying system that displays an image represented by the signal received by the communication module.