System and method for presentation of data streams

• US 7,215,338 B2
• Filed: 09/28/2004
• Issued: 05/08/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Given Imaging Limited (Medtronic Plc)
• Original Assignee: Given Imaging Limited (Medtronic Plc)
• Inventors: Krupnik, Hagai, Horn, Eli
• Primary Examiner(s): Jankus; Almis R.
• Application Number:
  US10/950,480
• Publication Number:
  US 20050075551A1
• Time in Patent Office: 952 Days
• Field of Search: 715/764, 715/716, 345/440, 345/440.2, 345/589
• US Class Current: 345/440
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/000094 extracting biological structures
• 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 5/06 Devices, other than using radiation, for detecting or locating foreign bodies for removing same A61B17/50 ; determining position of probes within or on the body of the patient
• 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: A61B 5/073 Intestinal transmitters
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 43/02 with a handle
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/206 Drawing of charts or graphs
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/10016 Video; Image sequence
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/10068 Endoscopic image
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30028 Colon; Small intestine

Abstract

An in-vivo sensing system and a method for creating a summarized graphical presentation of a data stream captured in-vivo. The graphical presentation may be in the form of for example a color bar. The color bar may be a fixed display along side a streaming display of the data stream. A cursor or other indicator may move along the fixed color bar as the data stream is displayed and/or streamed so as to indicate to a health professional what part of the data stream may be currently displayed. The color content in the color bar may map out the data stream and give indication of the location of anatomical sites as well as possible locations of pathology.

Claims

1. A method of presenting in-vivo data, the method comprising:

presenting on a display a stream of in-vivo images; and

presenting on the display a plurality of individual graphical bars, wherein at least a first bar comprises a summary of color representations of the images, and at least a second bar comprises a visual representation of images containing bleeding over time.

2. The method according to claim 1 comprising displaying a notation marker in a position along at least one of the bars.

3. The method according to claim 1 wherein the images are captured by a swallowable in-vivo device.

4. The method according to claim 1 wherein the images are of the gastrointestinal tract.

5. The method according to claim 1 comprising displaying a user annotation at a point along at least one of the bars.

6. The method according to claim 1 comprising accepting a user indication at a point along at least one of the bars and in response to the indication, causing the stream of in-vivo images to start from a point corresponding to the indication.

7. The method according to claim 1 wherein the plurality of individual graphical bars comprise a time bar.

8. The method according to claim 1 wherein at least one of the plurality of bars comprises a vector of average color values of images.

9. A system for presenting in-vivo data, the system comprising:

a swallowable imaging capsule to capture in vivo images; and

a computing device accepting the in-vivo images, the computing device comprising a display, the display presenting;

a stream of in-vivo images; and

a plurality of individual graphical bars, wherein at least a first bar comprises a summary of color representations of the images, and at least a second bar comprises a visual representation of images containing bleeding over time.

10. The system according to claim 9 comprising a receiving unit receiving images from the imaging capsule and transferring the images to the computing device.

11. The system according to claim 9 wherein the display presents a notation marker in a position along at least one of the bars.

12. The system according to claim 9 wherein wherein the images are of the gastrointestinal tract.

13. The system according to claim 9 wherein the display displays a user annotation at a point along at least one of the bars.

14. The system according to claim 9 wherein the computing device accepts a user indication at a point along at least one of the bars and in response to the indication, causes the stream of in-vivo images to start from a point corresponding to the indication.

15. The system according to claim 9 wherein the plurality of individual graphical bars comprises a time bar.

16. The system according to claim 9 wherein at least one of the plurality of bars comprises a vector of average color values of images.