Endoscope Imaging Control for Body Cavity Change Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing encapsulated endoscopes primarily observe lesion areas but lack technology to monitor changes in predetermined areas within the body cavity, limiting their ability to detect abnormalities and track disease development or healing.
Innovation Solution
An imaging control apparatus and storage system that captures and compares images of a predetermined area within the body cavity, generating difference images to identify changes and store relevant data for observation, allowing for early detection of abnormalities and monitoring of disease progression.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If encapsulated endoscopes merely stay near a lesion area to observe development, then the device complexity is reduced, but the ability to detect and monitor changes in predetermined areas is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by capturing images at predetermined time intervals and storing them as reference images before changes occur. This allows the comparison section to later detect changes by comparing current images with these pre-captured reference images, enabling reliable detection without requiring complex real-time analysis mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The comparison section continuously compares captured images with reference images and provides feedback through the notification section when changes are detected. This feedback mechanism enables the system to reliably monitor and detect changes in predetermined areas, improving detection capability while maintaining relatively simple device architecture through automated comparison and notification processes.
2Loss of information
If continuous imaging of the body cavity is performed, then the observation of changes in affected areas is enabled, but the loss of time and energy increases
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of performing full continuous imaging analysis, the system applies partial action by comparing only specific captured images with reference images at predetermined intervals. The comparison section selectively processes images based on change detection needs, storing and comparing only relevant frames. This approach enables effective change detection while significantly reducing time consumption and computational resources compared to continuous full-analysis imaging.
3Adaptability or versatility
If encapsulated endoscopes only observe lesion areas, then the ease of operation is maintained, but the adaptability to monitor different body cavity areas is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The imaging control apparatus performs multiple functions: capturing images, storing reference images, comparing images for changes, and providing notifications. This multi-functional design enables the system to monitor different body cavity areas and detect various types of changes (lesion development, healing, new abnormalities) using a single integrated device, thereby improving adaptability and versatility while maintaining ease of operation through automated processing.
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AI summary
There is provided an imaging control apparatus including an imaging control section configured to control an imaging section to capture a predetermined area in a body cavity, a comparison section configured to compare a captured image captured by the imaging section with a reference image, and a storage control section configured to execute a control to store the captured image in response to a comparison result by the comparison section.