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US 8,045,012 · App. 11/677,788 · Granted Oct 25, 2011

Image-pickup apparatus

Assignee: Olympus Corporation
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Patent No.
US 8,045,012
App. No.
11/677,788
Granted
Oct 25, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

An image-pickup apparatus includes: an image-pickup device for converting light into an electric signal and outputting a first image data; a transmitting unit for successively transmitting the first image data to an apparatus in the exterior of the image-pickup apparatus; and a storage unit for storing a second image data extracted from the first image data per frame unit under a predetermined condition.

Claims (25)

1. A capsule endoscope comprising:

an image pickup section configured to sequentially provide a color image data of an image pickup region;

an analyzing section configured to analyze the color image data from the image pickup section, select one of a plurality of image processions which are predetermined based on the analysis result, and perform image processing;

a transmitting section configured to transfer the color image data outside of a human body; and

a magnet for operating the capsule endoscope by externally applying a magnetic force;

a motion-detecting section provided in the analyzing section;

a motion-determination section provided in the motion-detecting section; and

an image-data-storage section provided in the analyzing section, wherein

the analyzing section detects a movement of the image pickup region from successive color images

the image-data-storage section stores the image data when the motion-determination section determines that the capsule endoscope is in “motionless” and a frame of the image data is not stored,

the motion-determination section determines that the capsule endoscope is in “motion” when the result value of the motion-determining is greater than a threshold value, and the capsule endoscope is in “motionless” when the result value of the motion-determining is smaller than the threshold value,

when a write address of the image-data-storage section reaches a maximum and the motion-determination section determines the capsule endoscope is in “motion”, the motion-determination section gives priority to outputting information from the image pickup section to outside of a human body, and

when a write address of the image-data-storage section reaches a maximum and the motion-determination section determines the capsule endoscope is in “motionless”, the motion-determination section gives priority to outputting information of the image-data-storage section to outside of the human body.

2. The capsule endoscope according to the claim 1 , further comprising:

an image data compressing section, wherein

the transmitting section transmits a compressed color image data by the image data compressing section outside of a human body.

3. The capsule endoscope according to the claim 1 , wherein

the plurality of image processions include a procession of storing a compressed color image which is compressed at lower than a specified data compression rate in the image data storage section.

4. The capsule endoscope according to claim 1 , wherein

the motion-determination section determines the result value according to a difference value of a motion vector extracted from within continuous images.

5. The capsule endoscope according to claim 1 , further comprising:

an image-compressing section provided in the analyzing section, wherein

the motion-determination section determines the result value according to a difference value of a coded-amount of compressed continuous images.

6. The capsule endoscope according to claim 1 , wherein:

the motion-determination section adds information indicative of whether the frame of the image data is stored in the image-data-storage section to the image data from the image-pickup section and the motion-determination section outputs the information to outside of a human body.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Jun 27, 2016
From: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
To: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 039344/0502 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 9, 2007
From: MIYANOHARA, MAKOTO
To: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 019270/0058 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2006-047951 · Feb 24, 2006 · national
Continuity (1)
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