Operational interface in a multi-viewing element endoscope

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9560953-B2
Application number	US-201414273923-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 9, 2014
Priority date	Sep 20, 2010
Publication date	Feb 7, 2017
Grant date	Feb 7, 2017

Abstract

The present specification describes an endoscopy display system including an endoscope with a distal tip having at least three image capturing components, and a handle with an actuator that, when activated, generates a video processing command; a controller including a video processing system adapted to transmit commands to the three image capturing components and receive an image feed from each of said three image capturing components; and a display system, including at least one monitor that concurrently receives and concurrently visually displays each of said processed image feeds, where the video processing system is adapted to process each of said image feeds in accordance with the video processing command to cause at least one of changing a position of, zooming into or out of; recording; freezing; highlighting; or superimposing a navigation indicator upon the at least one of the processed image feeds.

First claim

We claim:

1. An endoscopy display system comprising:
an endoscope comprising a distal tip, wherein said distal tip has at least three image capturing components, and a handle, wherein said handle has at least one actuator that, when activated, generates a video processing command;
a controller external to said endoscope, wherein said controller comprises a video processing system adapted to transmit commands to said three image capturing components and receive an image feed from each of said three image capturing components; and
a display system, wherein said display system comprises at least one monitor that concurrently receives each of said processed image feeds from the video processing system and concurrently visually displays each of said processed image feeds and wherein said video processing system is adapted to process each of said image feeds in accordance with the video processing command to cause at least one of:
a position of each of said processed image feeds on the at least one monitor to change;
a zoom into at least one of said processed image feeds;
a recording of at least one of said processed image feeds;
a freezing of at least one of said processed image feeds;
a highlighting of one of said processed image feeds; or
a superimposing of a navigation indicator on at least one of said processed image feeds; and

wherein, in response to said video processing command, the video processing system concurrently causes a zoom into only two of said processed image feeds.

2. The endoscopy display system of claim 1 wherein the display system comprises three separate monitors positioned in a serial horizontal sequence, each of said three monitors displaying one of said processed image feeds with a first image feed being displayed on a central monitor, a second image feed being displayed on a left monitor, and a third image feed being displayed on a right monitor, and wherein, when said video processing command causes the position of each of said processed image feeds to change, positions of each image feed changes resulting in the second image feed being on the central monitor, the first image feed being on the right monitor, and the third image feed being on the left monitor.

3. The endoscopy display system of claim 1 wherein the display system comprises three separate monitors positioned in a serial horizontal sequence, each of said three monitors displaying one of said processed image feeds with a first image feed being displayed on a central monitor, a second image feed being displayed on a left monitor, and a third image feed being displayed on a right monitor, and wherein, when said video processing command causes the position of each of said processed image feeds to change, positions of each image feed changes resulting in the third image feed being on the central monitor, the first image feed being on the left monitor, and the second image feed being on the right monitor.

4. The endoscopy display system of claim 1 wherein the display system comprises only one monitor, said monitor displaying all three processed image feeds with a first image feed being centrally positioned on said monitor, a second image feed being on a right of said centrally positioned image feed, and a third image being on a left of said centrally positioned image feed, and wherein, when said video processing command causes the position of each of said processed image feeds to change, positions of each image feed changes resulting in the second image feed being centrally positioned, the first image feed being on the right, and the third image feed being on the left.

5. The endoscopy display system of claim 1 wherein the display system comprises only one monitor, said monitor displaying all three processed image feeds with a first image feed being centrally positioned on said monitor, a second image feed being on a right of said centrally positioned image feed, and a third image being on a left of said centrally positioned image feed, and wherein, when said video processing command causes the position of each of said processed image feeds to change, positions of each image feed changes resulting in the third image feed being centrally positioned, the first image feed being on the left, and the second image feed being on the right.

6. The endoscopy display system of claim 1 wherein, in response to said video processing command, the video processing system causes a zoom into only one of said processed image feeds.

7. The endoscopy display system of claim 6 wherein the zoomed processed image feed is highlighted during zoom.

8. The endoscopy display system of claim 1 wherein, in response to said video processing command, the video processing system records only one of said processed image feeds.

9. The endoscopy display system of claim 8 wherein the recorded processed image feed is highlighted during recording.

10. The endoscopy display system of claim 1 wherein, in response to said video processing command, the video processing system freezes only one of said processed image feeds.

11. The endoscopy display system of claim 10 wherein the frozen processed image feed is highlighted during freezing.

12. The endoscopy display system of claim 1 wherein both zoomed processed image feeds are highlighted during zoom.

13. The endoscopy display system of claim 1 wherein, in response to said video processing command, the video processing system concurrently records only two of said processed image feeds.

14. The endoscopy display system of claim 13 wherein the two recorded processed image feeds are highlighted during recording.

15. The endoscopy display system of claim 1 wherein, in response to said video processing command, the video processing system concurrently freezes only two of said processed image feeds.

16. The endoscopy display system of claim 15 wherein the two frozen processed image feeds are highlighted during freezing.

17. The endoscopy display system of claim 1 wherein, in response to said video processing command, the video processing system concurrently causes a zoom into each of said three processed image feeds.

18. The endoscopy display system of claim 17 wherein the three zoomed processed image feeds are highlighted during zoom.

19. The endoscopy display system of claim 1 wherein, in response to said video processing command, the video processing system concurrently records each of said three processed image feeds.

20. The endoscopy display system of claim 19 wherein the three recorded processed image feeds are highlighted during recording.

21. The endoscopy display system of claim 1 wherein, in response to said video processing command, the video processing system concurrently freezes each of said three processed image feeds.

22. The endoscopy display system of claim 21 wherein the three frozen processed image feeds are highlighted during freezing.

23. The endoscopy display system of claim 1 wherein the video processing system is adapted to generate, and transmit to said display system, a navigation path image that visually shows a position of, or progression of, at least a portion of the endoscope through an anatomical region based on time.

24. The endoscopy display system of claim 1 wherein the video processing system is adapted to generate, and transmit to said display system, a timer which is a decrementing clock counting down from a pre-set amount of time.

25. The endoscopy display system of claim 1 wh

Assignees

• Endochoice Inc

Inventors

• Gilreath Mark
• Parks Will
• Levy Avi
• Ashery Yoram
• Kirma Yaniv
• Shimony Anat
• Jacobs Charlie
• Wieth Stephan
• Ladd Doug
• Gershov Yuri
• Krivopisk Leonid

Classifications

• A61B1/00048

  Constructional features of the display · CPC title

• A61B1/00009 Primary

  of image signals during a use of endoscope · CPC title

• A61B1/0615

  for radial illumination · CPC title

• A61B1/0684

  using light emitting diodes [LED] · CPC title

• A61B1/00181

  for multiple fixed viewing angles (A61B1/00193 takes precedence) · CPC title