Olympus Corporation

Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Olympus Medical Systems Corporation

Casio Computer Co., Ltd.

Asics Corporation

Takeshi Yokoi

Hironobu Takizawa

Hidetake Segawa

Akio Uchiyama

Hisao Yabe

Hitoshi Mizuno

Hideyuki Adachi

Hironao Kawano

Akira Hasegawa

Tetsuya Yamamoto

Masahide Kanno

Shinya Matsumoto

Jun Yoshinaga

Hideo Ito

Takeaki Nakamura

Hiromasa Suzuki

Shinichi Nishigaki

Hiroshi Ishii

Akira Suzuki

Yoshio Tashiro

Kenji Kimura

Takayuki Suzuki

Minoru Yamazaki

Hiroki Moriyama

Yoshihiro Iida

Osamu Tamada

Masatoshi Homan

Katsumi Hirakawa

Shinsuke Tanaka

Atsushi Chiba

Yasuhiro Ueda

Seiichiro Kimoto

Yoshikazu Tojo

Akira Kikuchi

Kenichi Arai

Kazushi Ishiyama

Kenji Hirooka

Jin Kira

Manabu Fujita

Kazuhiko Oozeki

Masahiko Sendoh

Kazuhiko Ohzeki

Kazuhiko Ozeki

Masahiro Kawashima

Mitsujiro Konno

Koichi Matsui

Takahiro Kishi

Kiyoshi Tsuji

Masaaki Nakazawa

Tadao Hagino

Tatsuya Orihara

Wataru Ohno

Michio Sato

Yuji Ikuno

Kazuya Saiga

Koji Shimomura

Yoshihito Shimizu

Akibumi Ishikawa

Tsuguhisa Sasai

Takehiro Tagawa

Hiroyuki Kusunoki

Yoshitake Saito

Masaru Ichikawa

Hirohiko Matsuzawa

Mototsugu Ogawa

Tsutomu Ishiguro

Shozo Shibuya

Satoshi Nakagawasai

Yukio Takahashi

Ken Kusano

Shosaku Suzuki

Noriko Nishimura

Masahiko Sendou

Yoshihito Horikawa

Masahiko c/o Olympus INTPROPERTY Services Sendou

Akio Oosone-Town-House 3-303 Uchiyama

Akio Olympus Ip Services Co Ltd Uchiyama

Hidetake;c/o Olympus Intellectual Property Segawa

Hironao Olympus Corporation Kawano

Provided is a display control method for a display control device including a processor and a storage. The method includes generating first display data for a display to display user marks at intervals so as to be added one by one as a time elapses from a timing. The intervals each correspond to a user's step length of a user obtained based on measured data on running or walking of the user. The user marks each represent a position where a foot of the user lands by one step. The method further includes generating second display data for the display to display reference marks at intervals so as to be added one by one as the time elapses. The intervals each correspond to a predetermined reference step length. The reference marks each represent a position where a reference foot lands by one step.

Display control method, display control device and storage medium

An indwelling apparatus () for holding a capsule endoscope () is arranged with a control device () including an optical sensor (), a control board () configuring a controller and a reset circuit, a driver board () configuring an electromagnet driver, and an electromagnet (), where when the optical sensor () detects the light, the controller performs the drive control of the electromagnet () at every constant time interval to turn ON the reed switch () and supply power to the capsule endoscope () thereby operating the capsule endoscope () only when observation is necessary, and thus the battery drain of the capsule endoscope is reduced.

Indwelling apparatus for body cavity introducing device and body cavity introducing device placing system

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

Provided is an intra-subject medical system which includes a body-insertable device and a physical quantity generator. The body-insertable device is to be introduced into a subject, is covered by a capsule-shaped exterior member, and includes a physical quantity detecting member which has a directivity to detect a predetermined physical quantity; at least one functional member which has a necessary function for examining or treating inside the subject; and a switch control unit which controls an on/off state or operation mode of the at least one functional member when the physical quantity detecting member detects a physical quantity. The physical quantity generator has a physical quantity emitting unit which emits a temporary physical quantity inside the subject; and a physical quantity direction changing unit which changes an emission direction of the physical quantity.

Intra-subject medical system, method of operating body-insertable apparatus and operative treatment

To stably and properly monitor an inside of a body by using an easily operable placement technique, a capsule endoscopeto be swallowed from an oral cavityto acquire in-vivo information of a subjectand to wirelessly output for a transmission of the in-vivo information to an outside of a body, a string memberthat is connected to the capsule endoscopefor positioning the capsule endoscopeat a gastric cardia, and a fixing portionthat is a portion of the string member, is provided on a position with which a length from the capsule endoscopecorresponds to a length from the gastric cardiato the inside of an esophageal regionfor fixing the string memberthat has located the capsule endoscopeat the gastric cardiato the inside of the esophageal regionby an endoscopic fixture are included. As a result, the capsule endoscopeis placed at a position of the gastric cardiawhere an entire inside of the stomach is easily inspected, and the capsule endoscopeitself can easily be placed inside the esophageal region by using the fixing portion

In-vivo information acquiring apparatus, in-vivo information acquiring system, and in-vivo information acquiring method

A capsule medical apparatus includes a capsule exterior member and a sensor that can detect the change of an atmospheric physical quantity caused outside the exterior member in the non-contact state, and performs, based on the temporary change in atmospheric physical quantity detected by the sensor, at least one of first control for switching operation from the ON-state of energy supply to the electric circuit from the battery to the OFF-state of the energy supply and of second control for switching operation from the OFF-state of the power supply to the ON-state of the power supply, and holds the state of energy supply switched by the control until another change of atmospheric physical quantity is detected.

Capsule medical apparatus

A lumen passability checking device includes: an expandable and shrinkable outer casing that contains a predetermined fluid, is expanded by a pressure of the contained fluid, and forms an external diameter substantially equal to that of a capsule medical device to be inserted into a body of a subject; and a shape manipulating unit that flows out the fluid contained in the outer casing to shrink-deform the outer casing. The outer casing is shrink-deformed by flowing out the fluid, while maintaining a state of being integrated with the shape manipulating unit.

Lumen passability checking device, lumen passability checking method, and method of manufacturing lumen passability checking device

A capsule type medical device, including: a capsule shaped casing which can be ingested to within the living body; an electrical stimulation device which comprises a plurality of electrodes which are used for applying electrical stimuli to living body tissue; an electrode selection device which selects an electrode from among the plurality of electrodes, to apply an electrical stimulus; a contact detection device which electrically detects the electrode which is in contact with the living body tissue; and a control section which controls the various devices.

Capsule type medical device system, and capsule type medical device

An object of the present invention is to continuously display a series of images of the inside of the subject until the intra-body indwelling capsule is placed at the desired site in the subject, and to easily place the intra-body indwelling capsule endoscope at the desired site. The intra-subject indwelling systemaccording to the present invention includes an endoscope devicefor imaging a first image of the inside of the subject; an intra-body indwelling capsule, for imaging a second image of the inside of the subject; a monitor devicefor receiving the second image; a receiving device, a monitorfor displaying the first image or the second image; and an image switching device. The intra-body indwelling capsuleis arranged at the distal end of the inserting unit, and the separation from the inserting unitis detected and the separation detection result is transmitted. The receiving devicereceives the separation detection result. The image switching devicereceives the first image from the endoscope deviceand the second image from the monitor device, and switches the display image of the monitorfrom the second image to the first image when receiving the separation detection result from the receiving device

In vivo imaging device, display device, imaging and displaying system and intra-subject indwelling system using the same

A capsule type medical device is of a type of a capsule type medical device that is introduced inside the living body to gather in-vivo information, and comprises a capsule shaped casing; an in-vivo information acquisition device for acquiring the in-vivo information; a communication device for sending the in-vivo information acquired by the in-vivo information acquisition device to outside of the living body by wireless; at least one pair of first electrodes provided in a vicinity of one end along an axis of the casing for giving electric stimulation to body tissue in the living body; a first current control device for sending current to the first electrodes; and an interelectrode distance variation device for changing a distance between the electrodes.

Capsule type medical device

A capsulated body having a facility, which acquires biomedical information through endoscopic examination or the like, incorporated therein is inserted into a duct within a living body. Whether the capsulated body has halted for a certain period of time is detected from the time-varying position of the capsulated body or a time-passing change in an image. If it is judged that the capsulated body has halted at a stenosed region or the like, the fact is notified so that the capsulated body can be collected immediately.

Capsulated medical equipment

There is provided an assisting table capable of horizontally holding a subject and holding an angle at which a head of a subject is supported in an inclined state, and an assisting instrument, which includes a containing portion for containing a fluid to introduce a capsule medical device into a body cavity, capable of ejecting a capsule medical device with the fluid from the containing portion by detachably attaching the capsule medical device at a distal end opening portion of the containing portion and by changing a shape of the containing portion.

Introduction-assisting apparatus for capsule medical device

The present invention provides a capsule type medical system capable of displaying different images on a monitor in such a display mode that a diagnosis can be easily made when one capsule type endoscope includes a plurality of image pickup units. A capsule type endoscope includes a plurality of image pickup elements for generating different image data and a storage unit for previously storing image pickup procedures of the image pickup elements, and records or transmits the different image data, captured in accordance with any of the procedures stored in the storage unit, in time series. An extracorporeal display unit includes a display control section for controlling a method for displaying the different image data recorded or transmitted.

Capsule type medical system

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Takeshi Yokoi