Capsule-type endoscopic system with real-time image display

• US 20080103359A1
• Filed: 10/26/2006
• Published: 05/01/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Chung-Shan Institute of Science & Technology Armaments Bureau MND (Government of The Republic of China)
• Original Assignee: Chung-Shan Institute of Science & Technology Armaments Bureau MND (Government of The Republic of China)
• Inventors: Lin, Tah-Yoong
• Application Number:
  US11/586,534
• Publication Number:
  US 20080103359A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/109
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00016 using wireless means
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/041 Capsule endoscopes for imaging

Abstract

The present invention relates to a capsule-type endoscopic system with real-time image display, which includes a capsule-type endoscope and a display apparatus. The capsule-type endoscope extracts an endoscopic image inside of a human body, produces endoscopic image data, and transmits the endoscopic image data to the display apparatus. The display apparatus displays immediately the endoscopic image data. For patients suffering from digestive diseases, physicians can acquire real-time endoscopic images through the capsule-type endoscopic system according to the present invention. If, according to the real-time endoscopic images of the present invention, the patients suffer from digestive diseases that need emergent treatment, the physicians can perform treatments immediately to the patients. Thereby, the diseases can be cured at early stage, and deterioration of emergent and lethal digestive diseases due to delay in treatment can be avoided.

Claims

1. A capsule-type endoscopic system with real-time image display, comprising:

a capsule-type endoscope, comprising a camera lens, an image sensor, and a wireless transmitting unit, the image sensor extracting an endoscopic image through the camera lens, and producing endoscopic image data according to the endoscopic image;

a first wireless receiving unit, receiving the endoscopic image data transmitted by the wireless transmitting unit; and

a first display apparatus, coupling to the first wireless receiving unit, and displaying the endoscopic image data received by the first wireless receiving unit.

2. The capsule-type endoscopic system with real-time image display of claim 1, wherein the capsule-type endoscope further includes a battery, supplying power to the image sensor and the wireless transmitting unit.

3. The capsule-type endoscopic system with real-time image display of claim 1, wherein the first wireless receiving unit further includes a first receiving antenna.

4. The capsule-type endoscopic system with real-time image display of claim 3, wherein the first receiving antenna adopts the Ultra-High-Frequency (UHF) band.

5. The capsule-type endoscopic system with real-time image display of claim 1, and further comprising a data recorder comprising a storage unit and a second wireless receiving unit, the second wireless receiving unit receiving the endoscopic image data transmitted by the wireless transmitting unit, and the storage unit storing the endoscopic image data.

6. The capsule-type endoscopic system with real-time image display of claim 5, wherein the second wireless receiving unit further includes a second receiving antenna.

7. The capsule-type endoscopic system with real-time image display of claim 6, wherein the second receiving antenna adopts the Ultra-High-Frequency (UHF) band.

8. The capsule-type endoscopic system with real-time image display of claim 5, wherein the data recorder further couples to an image processor, which couples to a second display apparatus, the image processor reading the endoscopic image data stored in the storage unit, and outputting the endoscopic image data to the second display apparatus for displaying the endoscopic image data.

9. The capsule-type endoscopic system with real-time image display of claim 1, wherein the first wireless receiving unit further couples to a data recorder comprising a storage unit for storing the endoscopic image data received by the first wireless receiving unit.

10. The capsule-type endoscopic system with real-time image display of claim 9, wherein the data recorder further couples to an image processor coupling to a second display apparatus, the image processor reading the endoscopic image data stored in the storage unit, and outputting the endoscopic image data to the second display apparatus for displaying the endoscopic image data.

11. The capsule-type endoscopic system with real-time image display of claim 1, wherein the wireless transmitting unit adopts the Ultra-High-Frequency (UHF) band.