Endoscopic Visualization Interface with Color-Coded Alignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional user interfaces for endoscopic view visualization in medical imaging are cumbersome, especially when navigating within large hollow organs, due to complex operations and limited degrees of freedom, making it difficult to modify viewing parameters and orientation effectively.
Innovation Solution
An intuitive user interface is provided that allows navigation through endoscopic view visualization by performing operations directly on a window, with features like sub-regions for different navigation functions, spherical navigation, and color-coded icons for intuitive alignment of images across multiple windows, reducing the need for menus and enhancing user interaction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional user interfaces with multiple windows and menu selections are used for endoscopic view visualization, then comprehensive control over viewing parameters is achieved, but the interface becomes cumbersome and difficult to operate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple viewing windows (endoscopic view, 3D overview, and multi-planar reformatted windows) into a single integrated window display. This merging eliminates the need for multiple separate windows and complex menu navigation, allowing users to access and control all viewing parameters from one unified interface, thereby improving ease of operation while maintaining comprehensive control capabilities
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated window serves multiple functions simultaneously: it displays the endoscopic view, provides 3D overview capabilities, enables multi-planar reformatting, and allows direct manipulation of viewing parameters. This multi-functional design consolidates what previously required separate windows and menu selections into a single versatile interface element
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple windows are used to display different views, then comprehensive visualization is achieved, but navigation becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the functionality of multiple visualization windows into a single integrated window that can display endoscopic views, 3D overviews, and multi-planar reformatted images simultaneously. This consolidation maintains the versatility of comprehensive visualization while simplifying navigation by eliminating the need to switch between multiple windows or use complex menu structures
3Ease of operation
If right-click menu operations are used to modify viewing parameters, then parameter control is achieved, but user interaction becomes cumbersome
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the viewing parameter controls from the cumbersome right-click menu structure and integrates them directly into the window interface. Users can now modify viewing parameters through direct window interactions without needing to access nested menu structures, significantly reducing the time and steps required for parameter adjustment
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AI summary
An intuitive user interface is provided for endoscopic view visualization. The user interface may permit individual or simultaneous navigation through images displayed in an endoscopic view window, a three dimensional overview window, and a multi-planar reformatted window. An operation performed directly on one of the windows may commence the navigation. The endoscopic view window may be divided into a plurality of sub-regions, each sub-region having a corresponding navigation function. The endoscopic view window and the three dimensional overview window may have corresponding icons related to a single location in corresponding images being displayed. The corresponding icons may be color coded to facilitate intuitive alignment of the corresponding images displayed in the different windows. The three dimensional overview window may have a geometric icon to facilitate intuitive alignment of the corresponding images. The multi-planar reformatted window may permit spherical navigation through the images displayed.