SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE DATA OF IMAGE SENSOR FOR CAPSULE ENDOSCOPE

• US 20130201310A1
• Filed: 10/21/2011
• Published: 08/08/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: I3system, Inc.
• Original Assignee: I3system, Inc.
• Inventors: Jung, Han, Baek, Bong Ki, Lee, Yong Woo, Kim, Byung Hyuk, Cha, Chul, Park, Sang Heun
• Application Number:
  US13/880,273
• Publication Number:
  US 20130201310A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/65
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00016 using wireless means
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/041 Capsule endoscopes for imaging
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/045 Control thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/45 for generating image signals from two or more image sensors being of different type or operating in different modes, e.g. with a CMOS sensor for moving images in combination with a charge-coupled device [CCD] for still images

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system for controlling an image data of an image sensor for a capsule endoscope, and more particularly, to a system for controlling an image data of an image sensor for a capsule endoscope, which controls the image data of a capsule endoscope system in which operations are changed using two image sensors of a capsule endoscope that are identically designed and manufactured in order to capture images of the inside of the human body.

Claims

1. A system for controlling an image data of an image sensor for a capsule endoscope having a master image sensor and a slave image sensor for photographing an inside of animal bodies including a human body comprising:

an image information receiving unit for receiving image information transmitted from the master image sensor and the slave image sensor;

an image separating unit for dividing images transmitted from the master image sensor and the slave image sensor by analyzing the image information received from the image information receiving unit;

a mini view processing unit for outputting the image divided by the image separating unit to a master display region and a slave display region;

a main view processing unit for enlarging and outputting the image by enabling a user to choose one image from the images outputted from the mini view processing unit;

a state information processing unit for outputting the state of the image according to a sensor into a bar type by analyzing the image information received from the image information receiving unit; and

a central control unit for controlling the signal flow of the image information receiving unit, the image separating unit, the mini view processing unit, the main view processing unit, and the state information processing unit.

5. A system for controlling an image data of an image sensor for a capsule endoscope as claimed in claim 1, wherein the image photographed by the master image sensor is displayed on any one region of the main view and the image photographed by the slave image sensor is displayed on another region of the main view.

6. A system for controlling an image data of an image sensor for a capsule endoscope as claimed in claim 1, wherein, in the main view processing unit, the image of the master image sensor is listed on any one part and the past images are subsequently displayed on the right side thereof in chronological order, and the image of the slave image sensor is listed on another part and the future images are subsequently displayed on the left side thereof in chronological order.

7. A system for controlling an image data of an image sensor for a capsule endoscope as claimed in claim 1, wherein, in the main view processing unit, two sensor images are placed vertically and the past images and the future images are displayed on the left and right sides thereof around the current images.

8. A system for controlling an image data of an image sensor for a capsule endoscope as claimed in claim 1, wherein, in the main view processing unit, it can sort the view point of the two sensors if the synchronization point is found during a playback of the images.

9. A system for controlling an image data of an image sensor for a capsule endoscope as claimed in claim 1, wherein the state information processing unit displays particular color bars of marking the location of the playback.

10. A system for controlling an image data of an image sensor for a capsule endoscope as claimed in claim 1, wherein, in the state information processing unit, the alignment of the time axis alignment is displayed by a bar graph by calculating the frames as time passed.

11. A system for controlling an image data of an image sensor for a capsule endoscope as claimed in claim 1 wherein, in the state information processing unit, the frames are aligned by the number of the frame to be displayed as a bar graph.

12. A system for controlling an image data of an image sensor for a capsule endoscope as claimed in claim 1, wherein, in the state information processing unit, during the alignment of the time axis, the frames are calculated as time passed by combining the master with the slave to be displayed as the bar graph and during the alignment of the frame, the frames are calculated as the number of the frame by combining the master with the slave to be displayed as the bar graph.

13. A system for controlling an image data of an image sensor for a capsule endoscope as claimed in claim 1, wherein, in the state information processing unit, the pH is displayed on any part of the bar by synchronizing the output of the pH sensor with the capsule photographing image and is displayed on the master image sensor and the slave image sensor in common and the average color of the photographic images is marked on the bar for organ division.

14. A system for controlling an image data of an image sensor for a capsule endoscope as claimed in claim 1, wherein, in the state information processing unit, the temperature is displayed on any part of the bar by synchronizing the output of the temperature sensor with the capsule photographing image and is displayed on the master image sensor and the slave image sensor in common.

15. A system for controlling an image data of an image sensor for a capsule endoscope as claimed in claim 1, wherein, in the state information processing unit, at least one of the pressure and the acceleration is displayed thereon, the output of the pressure sensor is displayed on any part of the bar by synchronizing the output of the pressure sensor with the capsule photographing image and is displayed on the master image sensor and the slave image sensor in common, and the output of the acceleration sensor is displayed on any part of the bar by synchronizing the output of the acceleration sensor with the capsule photographing image and is displayed on the master image sensor and the slave image sensor in common.

16. A system for controlling an image data of an image sensor for a capsule endoscope as claimed in claim 1, wherein, in the state information processing unit serves to extract at least one information among an image frame, a photographing speed, a location information, an Active/Sleep, an average color, an organ division, a moving speed, an image brightness, a pH, an acceleration, a temperature, a pressure, and display the extracted information as a status bar of a bar shape.

2. A system for controlling an image data of an image sensor for a capsule endoscope having a master image sensor and a slave image sensor for photographing an inside of animal bodies including a human body comprising:

an image information receiving unit for receiving image information transmitted from the master image sensor and the slave image sensor;

an image separating unit for dividing images transmitted from the master image sensor and the slave image sensor by analyzing the image information received from the image information receiving unit;

a mini view processing unit for outputting the image divided by the image separating unit to a master display region and a slave display region;

a main view processing unit for enlarging and outputting the image by enabling a user to choose one image from the images outputted from the mini view processing unit;

a state information processing unit for outputting the state of the image according to a sensor into a bar type by analyzing the image information received from the image information receiving unit;

an image classification processing unit for classifying similar images adjacent to each other among the image information, which is received to the image information receiving unit, into one image group; and

a central control unit for controlling the signal flow of the image information receiving unit, the image separating unit, the mini view processing unit, the main view processing unit, the state information processing unit, and the image classification processing unit.

17. A system for controlling an image data of an image sensor for a capsule endoscope as claimed in claim 2, wherein the image classification processing unit serves to display the number of the classified image frame, an average brightness, and a color sense in the form of a vertical bar or a horizontal bar.

18. A system for controlling an image data of an image sensor for a capsule endoscope as claimed in claim 2, wherein, in the image classification processing unit, two sensor images are synchronized to be classified and displayed and during operation of the sleep mode of the slave image sensor, only the image of the master image sensor is displayed.

19. A system for controlling an image data of an image sensor for a capsule endoscope as claimed in claim 2, wherein, in the image classification processing unit, each image of the master image sensor and the slave image sensor is independently classified to be displayed without synchronizing the master image sensor and the slave image sensor.

20. A system for controlling an image data of an image sensor for a capsule endoscope as claimed in claim 2, wherein, in the image classification processing unit, the main view is displayed with any one of one view and two view during selection of independent classification.

3. A system for controlling an image data of an image sensor for a capsule endoscope having a master image sensor and a slave image sensor for photographing an inside of animal bodies including a human body comprising:

an image information receiving unit for receiving image information transmitted from the master image sensor and the slave image sensor;

an image separating unit for dividing images transmitted from the master image sensor and the slave image sensor by analyzing the image information received from the image information receiving unit;

a state information processing unit for outputting the state of the image according to a sensor into a bar type by analyzing the image information divided by the image separating unit

a main view processing unit for processing and outputting a frame selected by a user through the state information processing unit; and

a central control unit for controlling the signal flow of the image information receiving unit, the image separating unit, the state information processing unit, and the main view processing unit.

4. A system for controlling an image data of an image sensor for a capsule endoscope having a master image sensor and a slave image sensor for photographing an inside of animal bodies including a human body comprising:

an image information receiving unit for receiving image information transmitted from the master image sensor and the slave image sensor;

an image separating unit for dividing images transmitted from the master image sensor and the slave image sensor by analyzing the image information received from the image information receiving unit;

a state information processing unit for outputting the state of the image according to a sensor into a bar type by analyzing the image information divided by the image separating unit

a main view processing unit for processing and outputting a frame selected by a user through the state information processing unit;

an image classification processing unit for classifying similar images adjacent to each other among the image information, which is received to the image information receiving unit, into one image group; and

a central control unit for controlling the signal flow of the image information receiving unit, the image separating unit, the state information processing unit, the main view processing unit, and the image classification processing unit.