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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2015
Applicant:
Endochoice, Inc., Alpharetta, GA (US);
Inventor:
Itay Sidar, Haifa, IL;
Assignee:
EndoChoice, Inc., Alpharetta, GA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A62B 1/04 (2006.01); A61B 1/045 (2006.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/05 (2006.01); A61B 1/06 (2006.01); A61B 1/12 (2006.01); G02B 23/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/045 (2013.01); A61B 1/00009 (2013.01); A61B 1/00011 (2013.01); A61B 1/00177 (2013.01); A61B 1/00181 (2013.01); A61B 1/051 (2013.01); A61B 1/0615 (2013.01); A61B 1/0676 (2013.01); A61B 1/128 (2013.01); G02B 23/2423 (2013.01); G02B 23/2461 (2013.01);
Abstract
A multiple sensor endoscope system includes daisy chained image sensors and a central control unit. At least one daisy-chained image sensor has a sensor array for capturing images and generating video packets from captured images, a video compression unit that compresses the video packets, a self-packet buffer that stores the video packets, a serial-to-parallel de-serializer input unit that converts serialized input video packets to parallel data, and a chain packet buffer that stores the video packets received from previous-in-chain image sensors.