Otoscanner with camera for video and scanning
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IPC분류정보
국가/구분
United States(US) Patent
등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)
A61B-001/04
A61B-001/06
A61B-001/00
출원번호
US-0586459
(2012-08-15)
등록번호
US-8900128
(2014-12-02)
발명자
/ 주소
Berglund, Nathanael
Bergman, Harris
Cahall, Scott
Foster, Jerry
George, Eohan
Harris, Samuel W.
Hatzilias, Giorgos
Hatzilias, Karol
Hong, Ruizhi
Sharpe, Wess E.
Stites, David G.
Strothers, IV, Harry S.
출원인 / 주소
United Sciences, LLC
대리인 / 주소
Biggers, John R.
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초록▼
An otoscanner including an otoscanner body, the body comprising a hand grip, the body having mounted upon it an ear probe, a tracking illumination emitter, a plurality of tracking illumination sensors, and a display screen, the otoscanner body having mounted within it an image sensor; wherein the im
An otoscanner including an otoscanner body, the body comprising a hand grip, the body having mounted upon it an ear probe, a tracking illumination emitter, a plurality of tracking illumination sensors, and a display screen, the otoscanner body having mounted within it an image sensor; wherein the image sensor operates at a video frame rate that is twice a standard video frame rate; a laser light source is strobed during capture by the image sensor of alternate video frames; video frames are captured by the image sensor when only the non-laser video illumination illuminates the scanned ear; and images for constructing 3D images are captured by the image sensor only when the strobed laser light illuminates the scanned ear.
대표청구항▼
1. An otoscanner comprising: an otoscanner body, the otoscanner body comprising a hand grip, the otoscanner body having mounted upon it an ear probe, a tracking illumination emitter, a plurality of tracking illumination sensors, and a display screen, the otoscanner body having mounted within it an i
1. An otoscanner comprising: an otoscanner body, the otoscanner body comprising a hand grip, the otoscanner body having mounted upon it an ear probe, a tracking illumination emitter, a plurality of tracking illumination sensors, and a display screen, the otoscanner body having mounted within it an image sensor;the ear probe comprising a wide-angle lens optically coupled to the image sensor, a laser light source, a laser optical element, and a source of non-laser video illumination, the wide-angle lens having sufficient depth of field, the depth of field defined by planes of focus, such that all imaging light on an interior surface of a scanned object is disposed between the planes of focus and in focus at the image sensor;the plurality of tracking illumination sensors disposed upon the otoscanner body so as to sense reflections of tracking illumination emitted from the tracking illumination emitter and reflected from tracking targets installed at positions that are fixed relative to a scanned ear;the display screen coupled for data communications to the image sensor, the display screen displaying images of the scanned ear, andthe image sensor coupled for data communications to a data processor, with the data processor configured so that it functions by constructing, in dependence upon a sequence of images captured when the scanned ear is illuminated by laser light and tracked positions of the ear probe inferred from reflections of tracking illumination sensed by the tracking illumination sensors, a 3D image of the interior of the scanned ear;wherein the image sensor operates at a video frame rate that is twice a standard video frame rate; the laser light source is strobed during capture by the image sensor of alternate video frames; video frames are captured by the image sensor when only the non-laser video illumination illuminates the scanned ear; and images for constructing 3D images are captured by the image sensor only when the strobed laser light illuminates the scanned ear. 2. The otoscanner of claim 1 wherein the laser light source in the ear probe comprises an optical fiber that conducts laser light to the ear probe from a laser outside the probe. 3. The otoscanner of claim 1 wherein the laser light source comprises a laser mounted in the ear probe. 4. The otoscanner of claim 1 wherein: the laser optical element comprises a conical laser-reflective optical element; andthe laser light source and the conical laser-reflecting optical element are configured so that the conical laser-reflecting optical element, when illuminated by the laser light source, projects a broken ring of laser light upon an interior surface of the scanned ear when the ear probe is positioned in the scanned ear. 5. The otoscanner of claim 1 wherein: the laser optical element comprises a diffractive laser optic lens; andthe laser light source and the diffractive laser optic lens are configured so that the diffractive laser optic lens, when illuminated by the laser light source, projects upon an interior surface of the scanned ear a fan of laser light at a predetermined angle with respect to a front surface of the diffractive laser optic lens when the ear probe is positioned in the scanned ear. 6. The otoscanner of claim 1 wherein: the tracking targets comprise retroreflectors; andthe tracking illumination is provided from a tracking illumination source mounted on the otoscanner body. 7. The otoscanner of claim 1 wherein the tracking illumination is infrared. 8. The otoscanner of claim 1 wherein constructing a 3D image of the interior of a scanned ear further comprises, for a sequence from the image sensor of 2D images of the scanned ear taken when the scanned ear is illuminated by a ring of laser light from the ear probe: detecting ridge points for each 2D image, the detecting further comprising identifying a set of brightest pixels for each 2D image, each set depicting a c-shaped broken ring of laser light reflecting from a surface of the scanned ear;transforming, in dependence upon a predefined association between each pixel in the image sensor and corresponding points in scanner space, the ridge points to points in scanner space; andtransforming, in dependence upon a relationship between an origin of a coordinate system defining scanner space and an origin of another coordinate system defining ear space, the points in scanner space to points in ear space. 9. The otoscanner of claim 1 wherein the display screen displaying images of the scanned ear further comprises the display screen displaying video images from the image sensor of the scanned ear illuminated only by non-laser video illumination. 10. The otoscanner of claim 1 wherein: the otoscanner further comprises the display screen coupled for data communications to the data processor; andthe display screen displaying images of the scanned ear further comprises the display screen displaying the 3D image of the interior of the scanned ear. 11. The otoscanner of claim 1 wherein the data processor is further configured to function by: determining a position of the probe in ear space when the probe is positioned at the aperture of the auditory canal of the scanned ear; andsetting the position of the probe in ear space when the probe is positioned at the aperture of the auditory canal of the scanned ear as the origin of the coordinate system defining ear space. 12. The otoscanner of claim 1 wherein constructing the 3D image further comprises constructing the 3D image in dependence upon a sequence of images captured by the image sensor as the ear probe is moved in the scanned ear. 13. The otoscanner of claim 1 wherein constructing the 3D image further comprises constructing the 3D image in dependence upon a sequence of images captured by the image sensor as the ear probe is moved in the scanned ear with mouth open. 14. The otoscanner of claim 1 wherein constructing the 3D image further comprises constructing the 3D image in dependence upon a sequence of images captured by the image sensor as the ear probe is moved in the scanned ear with mouth closed. 15. The otoscanner of claim 1 wherein the data processor is further configured to function by: inferring, from a tracked position of the ear probe, previously recorded statistics describing typical ear sizes according to human demographics, and currently recorded demographic information regarding a person whose ear is scanned, the actual present position of the ear probe in relation to at least one part of the scanned ear; andproviding a warning when the ear probe moves within a predefined distance from the part of the scanned ear. 16. The otoscanner of claim 1 wherein constructing a 3D image of the interior of the scanned ear further comprises determining the location and orientation in ear space of the ear drum of the scanned ear.
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