Endoscope Image Display Apparatus Local Switching
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current image display systems for endoscope data lack the ability to efficiently compare and switch between different image processing modes, such as white light and spectral images, which are essential for detailed observations of internal organ structures, limiting the effectiveness of medical diagnostics.
Innovation Solution
An image display apparatus and method that generates and displays white light and spectral images simultaneously, allowing users to switch between these image types within a designated area, maintaining positional coincidence, enabling detailed observation of internal organ structures.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If multiple image processing modes are displayed separately, then complete observation of different image types is achieved, but efficiency of comparison and diagnostic time is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple image processing modes (white light image and spectral image) into a single composite display. The controller superimposes or adjacently arranges different image types within one display area, allowing doctors to compare multiple image modes simultaneously without switching between separate displays, thereby improving diagnostic efficiency and reducing time loss.
2Measurement precision
If image switching is implemented, then detailed observation of specific areas is improved, but complexity of operation increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements local image switching where different image processing modes can be applied to different regions of the display. Users can select specific areas of interest and switch image modes only for those regions while maintaining other modes in the remaining areas. This allows precise observation of specific areas without requiring complex full-screen switching operations.
3Measurement precision
If different image processing modes are used, then visualization of internal structures is enhanced, but difficulty of maintaining positional alignment increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses the white light image as a reference template and overlays or aligns the spectral image to match its positional structure. The controller maintains the spatial relationship between different image modes by using one image as a template for positioning the other, ensuring that corresponding anatomical structures remain aligned across different processing modes without requiring complex alignment procedures.
Data Source
AI summary
An image display apparatus according to the present invention includes: a storage unit which stores an image group including a same number of first and second images which have a coincident positional relationship with respect to a subject and are respectively obtained through different image processes; a display unit which displays at least the first image in a display area; an input unit which indicates a display switching area of the first image displayed in the display area; and a display controller which controls the display unit to keep displaying the first image in an image part outside the display switching area and to switch an image part inside the display switching area of the first image to an image part, having a coincident positional relationship with the image part inside the display switching area of the first image with respect to the subject, of the second image.