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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:
Dec. 15, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2003
Applicants:
Tal Davidson, Haifa, IL;
Arkady Glukhovsky, Santa Clarita, CA (US);
Gavriel Meron, Petach Tikva, IL;
Inventors:
Tal Davidson, Haifa, IL;
Arkady Glukhovsky, Santa Clarita, CA (US);
Gavriel Meron, Petach Tikva, IL;
Assignee:
Given Imaging, Ltd., Yoqneam, IL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A device, system and method for capturing in-vivo images allows for size or distance estimations for objects within the images. A scale may be overlayed on or otherwise added to the images and, based on a comparison between the scale and an image of an object, the size of the object and/or the distance of the object from an imaging device may be estimated or calculated.