Scholly Fiberoptic Gmbh

Alexander Köhler

Daniel Härter

Stefan Schröer

Matthias Kühn

Joachim Jauss

Martin Böhning

Günter Grimm

Method for commissioning a camera control unit (CCU) which defines a first processing path for video data, wherein an operating program for the CCU is loaded from a non-volatile program memory into a temporary memory of the CCU, and a check is carried out to determine whether an expansion unit is connected to the CCU, and, if so, at least a part of the operating program is loaded from a non-volatile program memory of the expansion unit into a temporary memory of the CCU.

Method for commissioning a camera control unit (CCU)

In summary, to simplify operation of a medical image acquisition system, it is proposed that the image acquisition system continuously monitors a current image acquisition situation and assigns at least one new function to at least one, preferably manual, operating element, which is adapted to a detected new image acquisition situation, in response to a change in the image acquisition situation, to the extent that said newly assigned function is adjustable and/or operable with the at least one operating element. To this end, the image acquisition system can detect the change in the image acquisition situation using predefined parameters by means of sensors and/or through communication with peripheral units and/or preferably through image analysis of an image sequence which is recorded with an image sensor of the image acquisition system.

Method for adaptive functional reconfiguration of operating elements of an image acquisition system and corresponding image acquisition system

To simplify the use of a functional scope of a medical image recording system, for example an endoscopy system, a method is proposed in which an image processing unit of the image recording system recognizes predefined image recording situations on the basis of an image sequence recorded using an image sensor of the image recording system and in response thereto proposes an adaptation to a user that results in an improved display and/or an improved recording of the image sequence in the respective recognized image recording situation. The adaptation can relate here to an algorithm, using which the image sequence is processed after the recording, and/or an image recording method currently used to generate the image sequence.

Image recording system, which suggests situation-dependent adaptation proposals, and associated image recording method

The invention relates to a method for reconstructing an output image and/or a sequence of output images from raw image data, wherein, in at least one reconstruction chain between a recording of raw image data by means of an image recording device and a display of the output image and/or the sequence of output images on a display unit, at least one reconstruction step for reconstructing the output image and/or the sequence of output images is carried out, and wherein the result of the at least one reconstruction step is discarded when the result is recognized as invalid with respect to the fulfillment of a verification criterion.

Method for reconstructing an output image and/or a sequence of output images from raw image data, image recording device, image recording system, and overall system

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Alexander Köhler