IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS

• US 20130293692A1
• Filed: 05/10/2013
• Published: 11/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Inventors: HIRAKAWA, Katsumi
• Granted Patent: US 9,042,664 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/65
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00009 of image signals during a use of endoscope
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00016 using wireless means
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/0005 combining images e.g. side-by-side, superimposed or tiled
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/041 Capsule endoscopes for imaging
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/00 Surgical instruments, devices or methods, e.g. tourniquets A61B18/00 takes precedence; contraceptive devices, pessaries, or applicators therefor A61F6/00; eye surgery A61F9/007; ear surgery A61F11/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2505/00 Evaluating, monitoring or diagnosing in the context of a particular type of medical care
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/183 for receiving images from a single remote source

Abstract

An image display apparatus that can shorten time for observing a series of images of an interior of a subject without hampering observation of a desired region of interest is provided. The image display apparatus according to the present invention is an image display apparatus for displaying the series of images of the interior of the subject picked up at time series, including an image extracting unit 15a that extracts images each having a feature of a desired region in the interior of the subject and that identifies the extracted images as images of the desired region among the series of images, and a frame rate controller 15b that sets a display frame rate for the identified images of the desired region to be different from a display frame rate for images of regions other than the desired region.

Claims

1. An image display apparatus for displaying a series of images of an interior of a subject picked up along time series, comprising:

an image extracting unit that extracts at least one of the series of images having a feature of a region of interest, and identifies the at least one of the series of images as an image of the region of interest of the interior of the subject;

a frame-rate controller that sets a display frame rate for the at least one of the series of images and excludes rest of the series of images from the series of the display-target images; and

a controller that controls to display the at least one of the series of images at the display frame rate and skips displaying the rest of the series images.

2. The image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the image extracting unit assigns a skip mark to the rest of the series of images, and

the controller skips displaying the rest of the series of images to which the skip mark is assigned.

3. The image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the region of interest is an examination target organ site.

4. The image display apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the examination target organ site is one of an esophagus, a stomach, a small intestine, and a large intestine.

5. The image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the region of interest is a medically abnormal site.

6. The image display apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the medically abnormal site is a bleeding site or a lesion site.