ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM

• US 20090177034A1
• Filed: 03/12/2009
• Published: 07/09/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corporation (Olympus Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corporation (Olympus Corporation)
• Inventors: URAKAWA, Tsutomu, HONDA, Takemitsu
• Application Number:
  US12/402,898
• Publication Number:
  US 20090177034A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/109
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/041 Capsule endoscopes for imaging
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/05 characterised by the image sensor, e.g. camera, being in the distal end portion
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/065 Determining position of the probe employing exclusively positioning means located on or in the probe, e.g. using position sensors arranged on the probe
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 23/2476 Non-optical details, e.g. housings, mountings, supports

Abstract

An endoscope system of the invention includes an elongated insertion portion; an image pickup portion provided with an objective optical system having an optical axis diagonal to a longitudinal axis direction of the insertion portion and that picks up an image of a subject present in a field of view of the objective optical system and can rotate around the longitudinal axis of the insertion portion; a rotation angle detection portion that detects a rotation angle of the image pickup portion; an image pickup control portion that can have images of a plurality of subjects picked up while the image pickup portion makes one rotation by controlling the image pickup portion on the basis of the rotation angle detected by the rotation angle detection portion; and a signal processing portion that carries out signal processing for having each image of the plurality of subjects displayed on one display portion.

Claims

1. An endoscope system comprising:

an elongated insertion portion;

an image pickup portion provided with an objective optical system having an optical axis diagonal to a longitudinal axis direction of the insertion portion and that picks up an image of a subject present in a field of view of the objective optical system and can rotate around the longitudinal axis of the insertion portion;

a rotation angle detection portion that detects a rotation angle of the image pickup portion;

an image pickup control portion that can have images of a plurality of subjects picked up while the image pickup portion makes one rotation by controlling the image pickup portion on the basis of the rotation angle detected by the rotation angle detection portion; and

a signal processing portion that carries out signal processing for having each image of the plurality of subjects displayed on one display portion.

2. The endoscope system according to claim 1, wherein the image pickup control portion has the image of the subject picked up each time the rotation angle of the image pickup portion reaches a plurality of predetermined angles.

3. The endoscope system according to claim 1, further comprising a rotation speed setting portion that can set a value of a rotation speed of the image pickup portion and a rotation speed control portion that controls the rotation speed of the image pickup portion to a value set by the rotation speed setting portion, wherein

the image pickup control portion sets a timing at which the image pickup portion picks up an image of the subject on the basis of the rotation speed set by the rotation speed setting portion.

4. The endoscope system according to claim 2, further comprising a rotation speed setting portion that can set a value of a rotation speed of the image pickup portion and a rotation speed control portion that controls the rotation speed of the image pickup portion to a value set by the rotation speed setting portion, wherein

the image pickup control portion sets a timing at which the image pickup portion picks up an image of the subject on the basis of the rotation speed set by the rotation speed setting portion.

5. The endoscope system according to claim 1, wherein each image of the plurality of subjects displayed on the one display portion is arranged according to a rotation direction of the image pickup portion.

6. The endoscope system according to claim 2, wherein each image of the plurality of subjects displayed on the one display portion is arranged according to a rotation direction of the image pickup portion.

7. The endoscope system according to claim 3, wherein each image of the plurality of subjects displayed on the one display portion is arranged according to a rotation direction of the image pickup portion.

8. The endoscope system according to claim 4, wherein each image of the plurality of subjects displayed on the one display portion is arranged according to a rotation direction of the image pickup portion.

9. The endoscope system according to claim 1, wherein each image of the plurality of subjects displayed on the one display portion is arranged according to a rotation angle of the image pickup portion.

10. The endoscope system according to claim 2, wherein each image of the plurality of subjects displayed on the one display portion is arranged according to a rotation angle of the image pickup portion.

11. The endoscope system according to claim 3, wherein each image of the plurality of subjects displayed on the one display portion is arranged according to a rotation angle of the image pickup portion.

12. The endoscope system according to claim 4, wherein each image of the plurality of subjects displayed on the one display portion is arranged according to a rotation angle of the image pickup portion.

13. The endoscope system according to claim 5, wherein each image of the plurality of subjects displayed on the one display portion is arranged according to a rotation angle of the image pickup portion.

14. The endoscope system according to claim 6, wherein each image of the plurality of subjects displayed on the one display portion is arranged according to a rotation angle of the image pickup portion.

15. The endoscope system according to claim 7, wherein each image of the plurality of subjects displayed on the one display portion is arranged according to a rotation angle of the image pickup portion.

16. The endoscope system according to claim 8, wherein each image of the plurality of subjects displayed on the one display portion is arranged according to a rotation angle of the image pickup portion.