CN202821277U - Thermal Imaging Capsule Endoscopy Device - Google Patents

Abstract

Translated fromChinese

本实用新型提供一种热影像胶囊内视镜装置，该热影像胶囊内视镜装置至少包括一胶囊壳体、一控制单元、一电池组、一红外线感应芯片和一存储单元或一无线传输模块。胶囊壳体包括一容置空间、一取像口和一透镜，透镜的位置对应取像口。控制单元位于容置空间。电池组电性连结控制单元。红外线感应芯片位于容置空间，红外线感应芯片的位置对应取像口和透镜，红外线感应芯片电性连结控制单元。存储单元位于容置空间，并电性连结控制单元。

The utility model provides a thermal imaging capsule endoscope device, which at least includes a capsule shell, a control unit, a battery pack, an infrared sensor chip and a storage unit or a wireless transmission module. The capsule shell includes a storage space, an imaging port and a lens, and the position of the lens corresponds to the imaging port. The control unit is located in the storage space. The battery pack is electrically connected to the control unit. The infrared sensor chip is located in the storage space, and the position of the infrared sensor chip corresponds to the imaging port and the lens, and the infrared sensor chip is electrically connected to the control unit. The storage unit is located in the storage space and is electrically connected to the control unit.

Description

Thermal imagery capsular endoscope device

Technical field

This utility model is relevant for a kind of thermal imagery capsular endoscope device, particularly relevant for a kind of ex vivo gi system acquisition thermal imagery and store the thermal imagery capsular endoscope device of image information.

Background technology

Rose as far back as 1795, just have many medical science older generations to begin to carry out gastral inspection, in order to improve the convenience of inspection, conception and the creation of endoscope have just been arranged afterwards, during inspection, utilize a soft tube to insert in the organ that will check, for example the gastric visor.The light that sends from the cold light light source can illuminate organ inside, and then the light sensing chip inlayed of tube end can send back machine with signal of video signal very clearly, displays at screen; Yet above-mentioned technological means can't arrive with endoscopy for the little intestinal segment of human body, and if the endoscope length of traditional type oversize, control with relatively the difficulty, sufferer also must be born larger misery thereupon.

And along with the progress of science and technology, develop the technology of utilizing biological wireless telemetering, and give up previous wire transmission, solve the shortcoming of aforesaid tubular endoscope from volume and occupation mode.

In recent years because power saving and the light sensing chip of microminiaturization and the invention of wireless launcher, so that compact capsule endoscope system is born, this capsule endoscope system mainly is divided into two parts, body is interior and external, it is the visible light wave range image sensor that a capsule shell coats in the body, and pass through less radio-frequency and timely the image transmission of intestinal is arrived external receiving system, external receiving system is installed a plurality of radio receiving antennas, and the signal that receives is stored in the carry-along receptor for converting image to uses, so capsule endoscope system all pictures that it is photographed in belly with the record of loyalty, again along with drainage is left in the body, check action to finish, so patient uses quite conveniently checking, and can remove from and enters in the body with utilizing the pipe intrusive mood and cause uncomfortable and misery.

Yet the capsular endoscope device of existing use visible light technology need dispose a light-emitting device, and light-emitting device provides light source in order to section ex vivo, makes capsular endoscope be photographed the image of live body inside.Yet light-emitting device must lean on the battery powered of capsular endoscope device, and thus, meeting is so that the electric power of battery accelerates consumption.

In addition, use at present the endoscope photography of visible image, be suitable for observing the intestinal wall outward appearance and have unusual pathological changes, for example polyp or tumor.Yet, not all pathological changes all can Anomalies Caused outward appearance, therefore for example the outward appearance of early cancer's cell may be the same with the outward appearance of normal cell, uses the endoscope photography of visible image can't be for detection of this type of pathological changes, and so that sufferer delays the opportunity of early stage diagnosis and treatment.

Therefore, be necessary to provide a kind of new endoscope apparatus, it can provide novel image information.

The utility model content

Main purpose of the present utility model with a kind of thermal imagery capsular endoscope device is provided, it can capture ex vivo thermal imagery and store image information.

This utility model provides a kind of thermal imagery capsular endoscope device, comprising: a capsule housing, comprise an accommodation space, a capture mouth and lens, and the position of these lens is to should the capture mouth; One control unit is positioned at this accommodation space; One set of cells is positioned at this accommodation space, and this control unit of electrically connect; An and infrared induction chip, be positioned at this accommodation space, the position of this infrared induction chip is to should the capture mouth and these lens, this infrared induction chip comprises an infrared ray sensing element, the position of this infrared ray sensing element is to should lens, and this this control unit of infrared ray sensing element electrically connect.

Thermal imagery capsular endoscope device preferably, also comprises a memory element as mentioned above, is positioned at this accommodation space, and this control unit of electrically connect.

Aforesaid thermal imagery capsular endoscope device preferably, also comprises a coffret, and this coffret is arranged at this capsule housing, and this control unit of electrically connect.

Aforesaid thermal imagery capsular endoscope device, preferably, this coffret outputs to the end host of an outside in order to the storage data with this memory element, and this coffret also can be as the power interface of a generator electric power.

Aforesaid thermal imagery capsular endoscope device preferably, also comprises a wireless transport module, and this wireless transport module is positioned at this accommodation space, and this control unit of electrically connect.

Aforesaid thermal imagery capsular endoscope device, preferably, this memory element is made the information transmission by this control unit with direct memory access technique and this infrared induction chip.

Aforesaid thermal imagery capsular endoscope device, preferably, this capture mouth is a transparent optical dome structure.

Aforesaid thermal imagery capsular endoscope device, preferably, this capture mouth is made by sapphire or the macromolecular material of penetrable infrared ray wave band.

Aforesaid thermal imagery capsular endoscope device, preferably, this infrared ray sensing element is a sensing element array element, this sensing element array element is to carry out sensing in the thermoelectric pile mode.

Aforesaid thermal imagery capsular endoscope device, preferably, this memory element is connected in this control unit by a data bus interface.

The thermal imagery capsular endoscope device that this utility model provides can utilize on the industry, and has the enhancement effect.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is the sketch map of the thermal imagery capsular endoscope device of this utility model the first embodiment;

Fig. 2 is the sketch map that the thermal imagery capsular endoscope device of this utility model the first embodiment links end host;

Fig. 3 is the sketch map of the thermal imagery capsular endoscope device of this utility model the second embodiment;

Fig. 4 is the sketch map of the thermal imagery capsular endoscope device wireless link wireless receiving module of this utility model the second embodiment.

Description of reference numerals:

1: thermal imagery capsular endoscope device;

10: capsule housing;

11: the capture mouth;

12: lens;

13: accommodation space;

20: control unit;

30: set of cells;

50: the infrared induction chip;

52: the infrared ray sensing element;

60: memory element;

70: coffret;

80: wireless transport module;

90: wireless receiving module;

100: end host.

The specific embodiment

For above-mentioned purpose of the present utility model and other purposes, feature and advantage can be become apparent, cited below particularlyly go out specific embodiment of the utility model, and cooperate accompanying drawing, be described in detail below.

Below please in the lump with reference to figure 1 and Fig. 2 thermal imagery capsular endoscope device about this utility model the first embodiment.Fig. 1 is the sketch map of the thermal imagery capsular endoscope device of this utility model the first embodiment; Fig. 2 is the sketch map that the thermal imagery capsular endoscope device of this utility model the first embodiment links end host.

As shown in Figure 1, in the first embodiment of the present utility model, thermal imagerycapsular endoscope device 1 of the present utility model is in order to take near the in vivo infrared ray wave band of the infrared heat image of gi system, particularly body temperature, and its black body radiation wavelength is about 10um.Thermal imagerycapsular endoscope device 1 comprises acapsule housing 10, acontrol unit 20, a set ofcells 30, an infrared induction chip 50 (Infrared Sensor Chip), amemory element 60 and acoffret 70.

In the first embodiment of the present utility model,aforesaid capsule housing 10 is made by antiacid base material, such as polyethylene (Polyethylene) etc.Thiscapsule housing 10 comprises anaccommodation space 13, acapture mouth 11 and lens 12.In order to supply infrared penetration, capturemouth 11 is a transparent optical dome structure, use for infraredpenetration capture mouth 11 and entercapsule housing 10 inside, in order to satisfy biocompatibility, the material ofcapture mouth 11 can be sapphire (sapphire) or other macromolecular materials penetrating for this utility model infrared ray wave band simultaneously.The position oflens 12 is corresponding to the inboard ofcapture mouth 11, andlens 12 throw toinfrared induction chip 50 in order to the light focusing that will inject capture mouth 11.In the present embodiment, the material of theselens 12 can penetrate the material of 8 ~ 12um wave band for germanium or silicon or other, in order to control its optical quality, can also make a smooth bandpass filter (band pass filter) at this lens material.Yet the material ofcapsule housing 10 of the present utility model is not limited with above-mentioned, and it can be other materials with antiacid caustic corrosion effect, and material and the structure ofcapture mouth 11 andlens 12 are not limited with above-mentioned yet.

Aforesaid control unit 20 is positioned at theaccommodation space 13 ofcapsule housing 10,control unit 20 be one have control IC electronic installation, running with each opposed member of control this utility model, for example controlinfrared induction chip 50 pick-up images,control store unit 60 storage images, orcontrol coffret 70 the transmission of datas; Butcontrol unit 20 of the present utility model is not limited with the electronic installation with control IC.Aforesaid set ofcells 30 is positioned at theaccommodation space 13 ofcapsule housing 10, and electrically connect control unit 20.Set ofcells 30 required power supply when inner each electronic building brick running of this utility model to be provided.

Aforesaidinfrared induction chip 50 is positioned at theaccommodation space 13 ofcapsule housing 10, and thelens 12 behind thecorresponding capture mouth 11 in the position ofinfrared induction chip 50 and the capture mouth 11.In this utility model,infrared induction chip 50 comprises an infraredray sensing element 52, thecorresponding lens 12 in the position of infraredray sensing element 52, and infraredray sensing element 52 electrically connectcontrol units 20, the infrared image that infraredray sensing element 52 focuses in order toreceiver lens 12, and to make the optical image signal transition be the signal of telecommunication.In the present embodiment, the infrared ray (8 ~ 12 μ m) that meets the wavelength of human body radiation is absorbed byinfrared induction chip 50, but design of the present utility model is not as limit.In this utility model, infraredray sensing element 52 is a sensing element array element, with sensitive infrared and an infrared heat picture is provided; Because native system needs the mechanism of suitable power saving, so the sensing element array element mainly is take thermoelectric pile (thermopile) as sensing, its characteristic is not power consumption of sensing element array element itself, and does not need the temperature-compensating mechanism of complexity and power consumption; Yet infraredray sensing element 52 of the present utility model is as limit, and (bolometer for example bolometer) also can be as infraredray sensing element 52 for the infrared ray sensor of other non-cooling types.When the infrared ray of the wavelength that meets human body radiation throughlens 12 focus on be projected to infraredinduction chip 50 after, the infraredray sensing element 52 that infrared ray can be driven bycontrol unit 20 receives, and infraredray sensing element 52 can change the infrared signal that receives into the signal of telecommunication, and be transferred tocontrol unit 20, yet design of the present utility model is not as limit.

Aforesaid memory element 60 is positioned at theaccommodation space 13 of capsule housing 10.In this utility model,memory element 60 is jumbo memory apparatus, its mode by a data/address bus (DATA BUS) interface is connected incontrol unit 20, and with direct memory access (DMA, Direct Memory Access) technology andinfrared induction chip 50 exchange as the information transmission, but this utility model is not limited with above-mentioned; By this, after infraredray induction chip 50 obtains image information, can not need make any calculation process throughcontrol unit 20, and directly write record inmemory element 60 in the parallel bus mode.Directly the memory access technique to write the record time very short, can transmit the different layers image at the same live body of access position and significantly improve the image capture quantity of information with very high speed in a short period of time, even can store image width of cloth number and the resolution of taking significantly to improve per second in order to the image capture of high precision; Becausecontrol unit 20 does not carry out the action that computing stores to information, so consumed power and power consumption is very low and image can distortion.Yet above-mentioned mentioned direct memory access technique is the prior art of extensively using in the electronic information field, should be to have in this technical field and knows that usually the knowledgeable can understand and use easily, so its details is not added to give unnecessary details in description.

As depicted in figs. 1 and 2, in an embodiment of the present utility model,aforesaid coffret 70 is positioned on thecapsule housing 10, and is electrically connected at control unit 20.Coffret 70 outputs to theend host 100 of link in order to the memory body storage data with memory element 60.Aftercoffret 70 connects anend host 100, bycoffret 70, can be with the image data fast transport ofmemory element 60 interior institutes access toend host 100, andcoffret 70 also can be as the power interface of a generator electric power.

When thermal imagerycapsular endoscope device 1 of the present utility model during in practical application, maybe can place a live body to implement, in the present embodiment, live body for example is human body, but this utility model is as limit, and it also can be the health of the animals such as house pet.(for example user is swallowed thermal imagerycapsular endoscope device 1 when thermal imagerycapsular endoscope device 1 places an inside of human body, make thermal imagerycapsular endoscope device 1 be positioned at digestive tract), the control logic ofcontrol unit 20 can directly require 50 captures of infrared induction chip; Because the inside of human body structure has body temperature and can distribute infrared ray, so the infrared ray that inside of human body distributes can entercapsule housing 10 viacapture mouth 11, be projected to infraredinduction chip 50 vialens 12 again, and then makeinfrared induction chip 50 obtain the image information of imaging.Because the inside of human body of pathological changes structure, can have the different temperature (temperature that for example has the organ of cancerous lesion with normal internal structure, the temperature of the subnormal organ of meeting), therefore by thermal imagerycapsular endoscope device 1 of the present utility model, can detect according to the difference of temperature in vivo whether suffer from pathological changes.And in thermal imagerycapsular endoscope device 1 of the present utility model is discharged human body and process cleaning with Excreta after, can be byend host 100 being connected tocoffret 70 of the present utility model, with with thememory element 60 interior image data fast transports that captured to endhost 100, byend host 100 display process, then obtain the temperature image of a large amount of inside of human body, and so abundant image information can provide medical worker's inside of human body information to help its identification aura faithfully.

Below please in the lump with reference to figure 3 and Fig. 4 thermal imagery capsular endoscope device about this utility model the second embodiment.Fig. 3 is the sketch map of the thermal imagery capsular endoscope device of this utility model the second embodiment; Fig. 4 is the sketch map of the thermal imagery capsular endoscope device wireless link end host of this utility model the second embodiment.

As shown in Figure 3 and Figure 4, the difference of the second embodiment and the first embodiment is, in a second embodiment, thermal imagerycapsular endoscope device 1 does not havecoffret 70 andmemory element 60, and thermal imagerycapsular endoscope device 1 also comprises a wireless transport module 80.Wireless transport module 80 is positioned ataccommodation space 13, and electrically connectcontrol unit 20; After infraredray induction chip 50 had been taken thermal imagery, thermal imagery can be transferred to wireless transport module 80.In the present embodiment, user arranges at least onewireless receiving module 90 with it, and this at least onewireless receiving module 90 is arranged at the gastral position near live body, so as with the digestive tract of live body in 1 wireless connections of thermal imagery capsular endoscope device; Yet the quantity ofwireless receiving module 90 and position are not limited with above-mentioned.Wireless transport module 80 is exported the image data ofinfrared induction chip 50 towireless receiving module 90 with wireless transmission method.Thus, when thermal imagerycapsular endoscope device 1 places an inside of human body, can in time receive bywireless receiving module 90 thermal imagery of the inside of human body ofwireless transport module 80 transmission; The last thermal imagery that againwireless receiving module 90 is received is input toend host 100, with the data as medical examination.Yet design of the present utility model is not as limit.

Simultaneously, Fig. 1 or thermal imagery capsular endoscope device of the present utility model shown in Figure 3, itscapture mouth 11, the position oflens 12 andinfrared induction chip 50, be not restricted to the front or rear end of capsule, all be satisfied with can make and any position of optical quality all can be scope of the present utility model, for example be arranged at the side of capsule.

It should be noted that at last: above each embodiment is not intended to limit only in order to the technical solution of the utility model to be described; Although with reference to aforementioned each embodiment this utility model is had been described in detail, those of ordinary skill in the art is to be understood that: it still can be made amendment to the technical scheme that aforementioned each embodiment puts down in writing, and perhaps some or all of technical characterictic wherein is equal to replacement; And these modifications or replacement do not make the essence of appropriate technical solution break away from the scope of each embodiment technical scheme of this utility model.

Claims (10)

1. a thermal imagery capsular endoscope device is characterized in that, comprising:

One capsule housing comprises an accommodation space, a capture mouth and lens, and the position of these lens is to should the capture mouth;

One control unit is positioned at this accommodation space;

One set of cells is positioned at this accommodation space, and this control unit of electrically connect; And

One infrared induction chip, be positioned at this accommodation space, the position of this infrared induction chip is to should the capture mouth and these lens, this infrared induction chip comprises an infrared ray sensing element, the position of this infrared ray sensing element is to should lens, and this this control unit of infrared ray sensing element electrically connect.

2. thermal imagery capsular endoscope device according to claim 1 is characterized in that, also comprises a memory element, is positioned at this accommodation space, and this control unit of electrically connect.

3. thermal imagery capsular endoscope device according to claim 2 is characterized in that, also comprise a coffret, this coffret is arranged at this capsule housing, and this control unit of electrically connect.

4. thermal imagery capsular endoscope device according to claim 3, it is characterized in that, this coffret outputs to the end host of an outside in order to the storage data with this memory element, and this coffret also can be as the power interface of a generator electric power.

5. thermal imagery capsular endoscope device according to claim 1 is characterized in that, also comprise a wireless transport module, this wireless transport module is positioned at this accommodation space, and this control unit of electrically connect.

6. thermal imagery capsular endoscope device according to claim 1 and 2 is characterized in that, this memory element is made the information transmission by this control unit with direct memory access technique and this infrared induction chip.

7. thermal imagery capsular endoscope device according to claim 1 is characterized in that, this capture mouth is a transparent optical dome structure.

8. thermal imagery capsular endoscope device according to claim 7 is characterized in that, this capture mouth is made by sapphire or the macromolecular material of penetrable infrared ray wave band.

9. thermal imagery capsular endoscope device according to claim 1 is characterized in that, this infrared ray sensing element is a sensing element array element, and this sensing element array element is to carry out sensing in the thermoelectric pile mode.

10. thermal imagery capsular endoscope device according to claim 1 and 2 is characterized in that this memory element is connected in this control unit by a data bus interface.

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