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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2019

Filed:

Jun. 03, 2017
Applicant:

Capsovision, Inc., Saratoga, CA (US);

Inventors:

Kang-Huai Wang, Saratoga, CA (US);

Mark Hadley, Newark, CA (US);

Chung-Ta Lee, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Chang-Wei Lin, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

Other;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/04 (2006.01); A61B 1/06 (2006.01); H04N 13/254 (2018.01); H04N 13/296 (2018.01); G01B 11/25 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 5/353 (2011.01); H04N 5/355 (2011.01); H04N 9/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/041 (2013.01); A61B 1/06 (2013.01); G01B 11/2513 (2013.01); H04N 5/2256 (2013.01); H04N 5/23245 (2013.01); H04N 5/3532 (2013.01); H04N 5/35581 (2013.01); H04N 9/045 (2013.01); H04N 13/254 (2018.05); H04N 13/296 (2018.05); H04N 2005/2255 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0079 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and apparatus for capturing an image sequence using a capsule camera are disclosed. According to the present invention, a first energy-based frame time for the special images is determined based on first light energy perceived by the image sensor and a second energy-based frame time for the regular images is determined based on second light energy perceived by the image sensor. The capsule camera captures the image sequence comprising one or more sets of mixed-type images by configuring the capsule camera to cause a mixed-frame distance between the first energy-based frame time for one special image in a target set of mixed-type images and the second energy-based frame time for one regular image in the target set of mixed-type images smaller than an average frame period.


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