Image display device

Abstract

A device for displaying in vivo images picked up inside a subject in a time series. The device automatically detects lesion images contained in all in vivo images picked up over the time series. The device displays an elongated display area having a time scale assigned along a longitudinal direction thereof and an indicator which moves along the time scale to indicate a time position in the time scale which corresponds to a current in vivo image currently displayed in a main display area. In response to a detection of the lesion image, the device makes pixels located at a time position in the elongated display area which position corresponds to the lesion image to emit light in a predetermined pixel-display mode. The display mode of the indicator is controlled in response to information on a lesion that is possible to be contained in the current in vivo image.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to an image display device that displays images included in a group of images within a subject captured in time series. Background technique [0002] Conventionally, in the field of endoscopes, a swallowable capsule endoscope equipped with an imaging function and a wireless communication function has been proposed, and the development of introducing such a capsule endoscope into the internal organs of the subject to obtain organs The internal image group of the subject's in vivo information acquisition system. A capsule endoscope is swallowed by a subject such as a patient to observe (inspect) the inside of an organ. Thereafter, the capsule endoscope moves inside organs such as the stomach and small intestine by peristalsis until it is naturally excreted from the subject, and sequentially images the organs of the subject in time series, for example, at intervals of 0.5 seconds. Internal images (hereinafter sometimes refe...

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Therefore, there is a problem that it is difficult to determine whether any of the partial image groups displayed in the display area is a bleeding image when the slider is moved to the position marked on the time bar.

Therefore, there is a problem that the temporal position of the hemorrhage images contained in the image group inside the organ can be understood by the above-mentioned lesion marker, but it is difficult to understand the distribution of the number of hemorrhage images at all time positions of the image group inside the organ.

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