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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 06, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Daniel Mattsson-Boze, Goleta, CA (US);
David Chatenever, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Karl Storz Imaging, Inc., Goleta, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A62B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
348 65 ; 348 66 ; 348 67 ; 356241 ; 128-4 ;
Abstract
An endoscope and camera are described with which a display observed through the optics in the endoscope is rotated to a desired orientation using an accelerometer. The accelerometer generates a signal indicative of the local vertical and is used in the particular embodiment to rotate a CCD image sensor aligned with the optical axis of the endoscope so as to maintain a desired orientation of a display of the image on a monitor.