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Endoscope image pick-up apparatus

  • US 20070173692A1
  • Filed: 02/26/2007
  • Published: 07/26/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An endoscope image pick-up apparatus comprising:

  • an image pick-up unit for insertion into the body;

    an extra-corporeal unit for receiving an image captured by the image pick-up unit by radio transmission, the extra-corporeal unit being arranged outside the body;

    an image pick-up device for picking up an image in the body, the image pick-up device being provided in the image pick-up unit;

    a data transmitting device for transmitting the image picked up by the image pick-up device to the extra-corporeal unit at a plurality of transmitting ratios, the data transmitting device being provided in the image pick-up unit;

    a characteristic amount detecting device for detecting a predetermined amount of characteristics based on the image picked up, the characteristic amount detecting device being provided in the image pick-up unit;

    a determining device for determining validity of the image based on an output from the characteristic amount detecting device;

    an invalidity determining device for determining whether the image is invalid or valid based on an output from the characteristic amount detecting device; and

    a target image determining device for determining whether or not the image is a target image based on an output from the characteristic amount detecting device, wherein the determining device determines the image validity at a plurality of stages based on a combination of determining results of the invalidity determining device and the target image determining device, and the data transmitting device controls the data transmitting ratio in accordance with a determining result outputted by the determining device.

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