Annotated Capsule Image Display with Thumbnail Highlighting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Diagnostic imaging technologies, such as capsule endoscopes, generate large amounts of image data during traversal through the human body, making it time-consuming for medical professionals to navigate and identify relevant images for diagnosis, despite existing tools like fast forward, fast reverse, and annotation.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for displaying image sequence data with a first display area showing the main images and a second area for thumbnail images, where the thumbnail image corresponding to an annotated image is replaced or highlighted to indicate correspondence, along with a timeline for navigation, reducing the need for continuous annotation and improving viewing efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If continuous video playback is used to view all images, then complete diagnostic coverage is achieved, but time consumption increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and highlights only the annotated images from the continuous video sequence by replacing thumbnail images with visual alerts when annotated frames are displayed. This allows physicians to quickly identify and focus on diagnostically relevant images without manually reviewing every frame, thereby maintaining complete diagnostic coverage while significantly reducing viewing time.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides immediate visual feedback by replacing thumbnail images with alerts when an annotated image is being displayed in the main video area. This feedback mechanism guides the physician's attention to important diagnostic points in real-time, enabling efficient navigation through large image datasets without sacrificing diagnostic thoroughness.
2Ease of operation
If annotation is added to help locate images of interest, then navigation efficiency improves, but device complexity and processing overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses thumbnail images as simplified copies or representations of the full-resolution annotated images. By manipulating and highlighting these thumbnail copies in the navigation panel, the system provides efficient navigation without requiring complex operations on the full image data, thus improving ease of operation while controlling device complexity.
3Ease of operation
If thumbnail images are displayed continuously, then navigation overview is maintained, but visual clutter increases and reduces clarity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic thumbnail replacement where thumbnail images are temporarily replaced with visual alerts when their corresponding annotated images are being displayed in the main video area. This dynamic behavior maintains navigation capability by showing thumbnail positions, while simultaneously preserving visual clarity by removing redundant thumbnail information when it is no longer needed, thus resolving the contradiction between navigation overview and visual clutter.
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AI summary
A method and system for displaying images captured by an in vivo imaging device are disclosed. Embodiments according to the present invention display image sequence data in a first display area. When a first annotated image is displayed in the first display area, a first thumbnail image in a second display area corresponding to the first annotated image is replaced to indicate an occurring correspondence between the first annotated image and the first thumbnail image corresponding to the first annotated image being displayed. In one embodiment, the method further comprises displaying the first thumbnail image in the second display area when one other image of the image sequence data is displayed in the first display area after the first annotated image is displayed.