Olympus Corporation

Fanuc Corporation

Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Hitoshi Mizuno

Nobutoshi Torii

Hironobu Takizawa

Takeshi Yokoi

Akihiro Horii

Akio Uchiyama

Hideyuki Adachi

Kenichi Toyoda

Mamoru Kaneko

Toshimasa Kawai

Hisao Yabe

Ryo Nihei

Hiroki Moriyama

Hiroki Hibino

Hidetake Segawa

Tadashi Hirata

Kenji Yoshino

Sakae Takehana

Seiichiro Nakashima

Yoshinao Oaki

Hitoshi Ueno

Kyozi Iwasaki

Kyoji Iwasaki

Yuichi Ikeda

Tetsuya Yamamoto

Yoshio Onuki

Katsuichi Imaizumi

Takefumi Uesugi

Isami Hirao

Hideki Shimonaka

Takeshi Ozawa

Shuhei Iizuka

Sydney Sheung Chee Chung

Toshinari Maeda

Masahiro Ohno

Jun Hiroya

Eiji Yasuda

Masanao Miyawaki

Hiroyuki Sangu

Hidemichi Aoki

Eiichi Kobayashi

Hiroyuki Fukuda

Masaaki Hayashi

Akihiro Terada

Yasuhiro Ueda

Akinobu Uchikubo

Hitoshi Karasawa

Susumu Takahashi

Tetsumaru Kubota

Takashi Fukaya

Akio Nakada

Masakazu Gotanda

Keiichi Arai

Shuichi Takayama

Kuniaki Kami

Koji Yasunaga

Koji Takamura

Yasuharu Hakamatsuka

Tatsuo Karakama

Akihiro Taguchi

Naoki Uchiyama

Tatsuya Kubota

Masahiro Kudo

Yoshiharu Saito

Raifu Matsui

Kazuhiko Arai

Atsushi Okawa

Yuta Okada

Hiroyuki Irie

Atsushi Amano

Kenji Hirooka

Yoshihiro Kosaka

Koichi Umeyama

Masanori Kaneda

Chika Shiro

Masaya Yoshihara

Hideki Koyanagi

Noriyuki Tateyama

Takayuki Kameya

Yuuichi Ikeda

Hikaru Inoue

Kyo Imagawa

Masano Miyawaki

Katsuyuki Muraki

Shin Katayama

Nobuyuki Dohguchi

An encapsulated endoscope system in accordance with the present invention comprises: an encapsulated endoscope that rotates to develop a thrust; a controller that moves the encapsulated endoscope in an intended direction of advancement; an imaging unit incorporated in the encapsulated endoscope; and an image processing unit that receives image data sent from the imaging unit, and produces an image, which results from rotation of the received image data, according to the rotational phase of the encapsulated endoscope.

Encapsulated endoscope system in which endoscope moves in lumen by itself and rotation of image of region to be observed is ceased

A method of displaying an image in a subject is provided. The method including: capturing an image using a capsule type medical device introduced into the subject; generating a wireless signal of the image; receiving the wireless signal of the image at the outside of the subject with an external device; and displaying the image based on the received signal, on a first display portion contained in the same housing as the external device.

Method and portable device for displaying an image from a capsule type medical device

A holding member has an opening portion which opens to an distal end. The opening portion, the distal end of an endoscope and a holding member define a treatment space. A clamping member can project and retreat from and into the opening portion through the treatment space. The puncture member can move in the treatment space, in a direction that intersects with the longitudinal direction of the endoscope.

Endoscopic suture apparatus

A method of transmitting images in a subject to an outside of the subject using a wireless signal is provided. The method including: (a) transmitting to the outside of the subject a first signal corresponding to a first image obtained using a first imaging device, by timing on a first illumination device for illuminating the subject to capture the first image of the subject; (b) transmitting to the outside of the subject a second signal corresponding to a second image obtained using a second imaging device, by turning on a second illumination device for illuminating the subject to capture the second image of the subject; and (c) repeating (a) and (b), where at least initiation of the transmitting the first signal and initiation of the transmitting the second signals is alternately performed and the first and second illumination devices are alternately turned on coincidentally with transmission periods of the first and second signals, respectively.

Capsule-type medical device and medical system

A system and method is provided for obtaining images of a subject using a capsule type medical device, The method performs the steps of preparing a swallowable capsule type medical device including at least an imaging device and a memory for storing a setting associated with an operation; changing the setting stored in the memory; introducing the capsule type medical device into the subject; and controlling the operation based on the setting. The operation can include controlling an imaging device. The system includes a swallowable case; an imaging device arranged in the case, the imaging device being operated based on a setting stored in a memory disposed in the case; and a receiver arranged in the case adapted to receive an instruction to change the setting from outside of the case.

System and method of obtaining images of a subject using a capsule type medical device

A capsule-type medical device comprises a capsule main unit having functions for being inserted into the body cavity and performing medical acts such as taking images or the like. The capsule main unit comprises therein a magnet which is acted upon by external magnetism, and a spiral portion on the outer perimeter, so that rotating force acting upon the magnet is readily converted into a propelling force for propelling the capsule-type medical device. A flexible insertion portion which is long and small in diameter is provided to the capsule main unit to allow smooth progression through the body cavity, and the center of gravity of the device is placed upon the longitudinal center axis of the capsule main unit, thus facilitating smooth progression through the body cavity.

Capsule-type medical device

The present invention discloses a cell culturing system that cultures predetermined cells collected from a patient and supplies cultured cells to the original patient, which together with enabling correlations between the cultured cells and the supplier of the cells to be managed accurately and easily at all times, allows cultured cells and patients to be collated rapidly.

Cell culture system apparatus for checking cultured cells and apparatus for culturing cells

A battery self-containing body, which self-contains a battery or a battery accommodating body, which accommodates a battery removably is attached to a capsule body including a drive circuit for driving an imaging device and an illuminating device. Thus, the power supply can be turned ON easily. In addition, the inside portion is sealed water-tightly. Thus, the battery self-containing body or a battery can be exchanged easily, which allows the easy reuse. The direction of the visual field of the imaging device is diagonal with respect to the axis of the capsule body. Furthermore, spiral-shape projections are provided on the peripheral surface of the cylinder form. Thus, the rotation allows the surface of canal cavity wall to be examined easily.

Capsule-type medical apparatus

An optical imaging apparatus has an optical scanning probe configured to irradiate low-coherence light onto a subject and to perform photo-reception of light scattered at the subject, and an observation device adapted to construct a cross-section image of the subject based on information from the light received through the optical scanning probe. The optical scanning probe is detachably connected to the observation device.

Optical imaging apparatus

An optical imaging device includes a reference scanning unit offering a high signal-to-noise ratio and capable of scanning an object rapidly. An interference optical system can be realized inexpensively. In the optical imaging device, low coherent light passed through an optical coupler and another optical coupler, irradiated from an optical scanner probe, reflected from an observed point in a living tissue, returned to the optical coupler, propagated over a fourth SM optical fiber, and routed to another optical coupler shall be referred to as sample light. Light passed through an optical length variation optical system via the optical coupler and routed to the optical coupler shall be referred to as reference light. At this time, a difference between a delay time undergone by the sample light and a delay time undergone by the reference light is proportional to a difference between an optical length for the sample light and an optical length for the reference light. When the optical length difference falls within a coherence length, the sample light and reference light interfere with each other. An interfering signal is acquired into a computer through detectors, a differential amplifier, a demodulator, and an A/D converter.

Rapid depth scanning optical imaging device

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Hitoshi Mizuno