Device, system and method of receiving and recording and displaying in-vivo data with user entered data

• US 7,805,178 B1
• Filed: 07/25/2006
• Issued: 09/28/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Given Imaging Limited (Medtronic Plc)
• Original Assignee: Given Imaging Limited (Medtronic Plc)
• Inventors: Gat, Daniel
• Primary Examiner(s): Casler; Brian
• Assistant Examiner(s): KISH, JAMES M
• Application Number:
  US11/492,218
• Time in Patent Office: 1,526 Days
• Field of Search: 345/619, 600/424, 600/407
• US Class Current: 600/407
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/041 Capsule endoscopes for imaging
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0031 Implanted circuitry
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/01 Measuring temperature of body parts ; Diagnostic temperature sensing, e.g. for malignant or inflamed tissue clinical contact thermometers G01K13/20
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/036 by means introduced into body tracts A61B5/032 and A61B5/035 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/05 Detecting, measuring or recording for diagnosis by means of electric currents or magnetic fields; Measuring using microwaves or radio waves impedance plethysmography A61B5/0295; measuring movement of the entire body or parts thereof A61B5/11; detecting, measuring or recording bioelectric or biomagnetic signals of the body or parts thereof A61B5/24
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14539 for measuring pH

Abstract

The present invention discloses a system comprising an in vivo imaging device able to transmit in vivo data via a wireless medium, a receiver to receive in vivo data via the wireless medium, input means for entering to the receiver indications by a user, an indication storage unit to store the indications and to store data representing entering time at which the indications was entered by the user and information identifying in vivo data portions corresponding to that entering time, and a display unit to display the indications concurrently with the in vivo data portions corresponding to the entering time at which the indications was entered. The indications entered by the user may be indicative of activities of the user, condition of the user, environmental conditions next to the user and the like.

Claims

1. A method comprising the steps of:

acquiring frames of in vivo image data by a capsule endoscope during the passage of said capsule endoscope through a body lumen of a patient;

transmitting by said capsule endoscope said in vivo image data from within said body lumen to a receiver outside the patient'"'"'s body;

storing in the receiver said frames of in vivo image data;

receiving at the receiver at least one indication by said patient during the passage of said capsule endoscope through a body lumen of said patient, wherein said indication is selected from;

activities of said patient, condition of said patient, and environment of said patient;

storing in the receiver said at least one indication together with data representing a property of at least one frame of said frames of in vivo image data acquired immediately before or immediately after said at least one indication was received;

transferring said stored frames of in vivo image data, said at least one indication, and said data representing the property of the at least one frame from said receiver to a workstation; and

displaying simultaneously by said workstation a stream of said frames of in vivo image data, a time bar, a summarized graphical representation of said stream of said frames of in vivo image data, and a representation of said at least one indication, wherein said representation of said at least one indication is displayed at a position relative to said time bar and said fixed summarized graphical representation corresponding to the time in which said at least one indication was received at said receiver.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of controlling playback of said stream of frames of in vivo image data.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising storing in the receiver said indication, data representing the entering time at which said indication was entered by said patient, and data identifying a portion of said in vivo image data which corresponds to said entering time.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein said displaying comprises displaying a graphical presentation associated with in-vivo data in time-correlation with said displayed stream of frames of in vivo image data.