Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Navigation device, navigation method, and endoscope system
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Application No.: US16194402Application Date: 2018-11-19
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Publication No.: US11419480B2Publication Date: 2022-08-23
- Inventor: Koji Shimomura
- Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
- Current Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: JCIPRNET
- Priority: JPJP2016-119782 20160616
- Main IPC: A61B1/00
- IPC: A61B1/00 ; A61B34/20 ; A61B5/06 ; A61B1/05 ; G01R33/28 ; G01R33/54

Abstract:
Provided are a navigation device and a navigation method capable of reducing the size and the cost of an endoscope, and an endoscope system including the navigation device. The navigation device includes a magnetic field generation control unit that causes magnetic fields to be generated at different timings from a plurality of magnetic field generation units that generate the magnetic fields at mutually different positions; an image signal acquisition unit that acquires, from the endoscope, an added image signal obtained by adding specification information for specifying the magnetic field generation units generating the magnetic fields and magnetic field detection results of the respective magnetic field detection units to an image signal output from an imaging element; and a position detection unit that detects positions of the respective magnetic field detection units on the basis of the specification information and the magnetic field detection results that are added to the added image signal acquired by the image signal acquisition unit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190082930A1 NAVIGATION DEVICE, NAVIGATION METHOD, AND ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2019-03-21
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