Patents Assigned to OLIVE MEDICAL CORPORATION
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Publication number: 20160155765Abstract: Embodiments of a hybrid imaging sensor that optimizes a pixel array area on a substrate using a stacking scheme for placement of related circuitry with minimal vertical interconnects between stacked substrates and associated features are disclosed. Embodiments of maximized pixel array size/die size (area optimization) are disclosed, and an optimized imaging sensor providing improved image quality, improved functionality, and improved form factors for specific applications common to the industry of digital imaging are also disclosed. Embodiments of the above may include systems, methods and processes for staggering ADC or column circuit bumps in a column or sub-column hybrid image sensor using vertical interconnects are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2015Publication date: June 2, 2016Applicant: OLIVE MEDICAL CORPORATIONInventor: Laurent Blanquart
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Patent number: 9153609Abstract: Embodiments of a hybrid imaging sensor that optimizes a pixel array area on a substrate using a stacking scheme for placement of related circuitry with minimal vertical interconnects between stacked substrates and associated features are disclosed. Embodiments of maximized pixel array size/die size (area optimization) are disclosed, and an optimized imaging sensor providing improved image quality, improved functionality, and improved form factors for specific applications common to the industry of digital imaging are also disclosed. Embodiments of the above may include systems, methods and processes for staggering ADC or column circuit bumps in a column or sub-column hybrid image sensor using vertical interconnects are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2012Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: Olive Medical CorporationInventor: Laurent Blanquart
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Publication number: 20150271370Abstract: The disclosure extends to devices, systems and methods for connecting one or more sensors to one or more printed circuit boards (PCB) in the distal end or tip of a scope. The disclosure also extends to a connector assembly for an image sensor for protecting the sensor and conveying information from the sensor to the PCB.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2015Publication date: September 24, 2015Applicant: OLIVE MEDICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Jeremiah D. Henley, Laurent Blanquart, Brian Dean
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Patent number: 9123602Abstract: Embodiments of a hybrid imaging sensor that optimizes a pixel array area on a substrate using a stacking scheme for placement of related circuitry with minimal vertical interconnects between stacked substrates and associated features are disclosed. Embodiments of maximized pixel array size/die size (area optimization) are disclosed, and an optimized imaging sensor providing improved image quality, improved functionality, and improved form factors for specific applications common to the industry of digital imaging are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2012Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: Olive Medical CorporationInventor: Laurent Blanquart
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Publication number: 20150242581Abstract: A system and methods for providing and reclaiming a single use imaging device for sterile environments is disclosed and described. The system may include a single use high definition camera used for general purpose surgical procedures including, but not limited to: arthroscopic, laparoscopic, gynecologic, and urologic procedures, may comprise an imaging device that is a sterile and designed to ensure single use. The imaging device may have a single imaging sensor, either CCD or CMOS, encased in a housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2015Publication date: August 27, 2015Applicant: Olive Medical CorporationInventors: Joshua D. Talbert, Jeremiah D. Henley, Donald M. Wichern, Curtis L. Wichern
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Publication number: 20150215560Abstract: An endoscopic device having embodiments of a hybrid imaging sensor that optimizes a pixel array area on a substrate using a stacking scheme for placement of related circuitry with minimal vertical interconnects between stacked substrates and associated features are disclosed. Embodiments of maximized pixel array size/die size (area optimization) are disclosed, and an optimized imaging sensor providing improved image quality, improved functionality, and improved form factors for specific applications common to the industry of digital imaging are also disclosed. Embodiments of the above may include systems, methods and processes for staggering ADC or column circuit bumps in a column or sub-column hybrid image sensor using vertical interconnects are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2015Publication date: July 30, 2015Applicant: OLIVE MEDICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Laurent Blanquart, Joshua D. Talbert, Jeremiah D. Henley, Donald M. Wichern
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Patent number: 8972714Abstract: A system and methods for providing and reclaiming a single use imaging device for sterile environments is disclosed and described. The system may include a single use high definition camera used for general purpose surgical procedures including, but not limited to: arthroscopic, laparoscopic, gynecologic, and urologic procedures, may comprise an imaging device that is a sterile and designed to ensure single use. The imaging device may have a single imaging sensor, either CCD or CMOS, encased in a housing.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2011Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Olive Medical CorporationInventors: Joshua D. Talbert, Jeremiah D. Henley, Donald M. Wichern, Curtis L. Wichern
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Patent number: 8952312Abstract: An endoscopic device having embodiments of a hybrid imaging sensor that optimizes a pixel array area on a substrate using a stacking scheme for placement of related circuitry with minimal vertical interconnects between stacked substrates and associated features are disclosed. Embodiments of maximized pixel array size/die size (area optimization) are disclosed, and an optimized imaging sensor providing improved image quality, improved functionality, and improved form factors for specific applications common to the industry of digital imaging are also disclosed. Embodiments of the above may include systems, methods and processes for staggering ADC or column circuit bumps in a column or sub-column hybrid image sensor using vertical interconnects are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2012Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Olive Medical CorporationInventors: Laurent Blanquart, Joshua D. Talbert, Jeremiah D. Henley, Donald M. Wichern
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Publication number: 20140316196Abstract: The disclosure relates and extends to a light source having a strobing or pulsing sequence suitable for use with a CMOS sensor that does not require, have, or use a global shutter. Instead, the CMOS sensor synchronizes the strobing input with the blanking portion of the sensor readout pattern and disables the strobing during sensor readout, or when the strobing would otherwise leave artifacts in the image. The CMOS sensor freezes its readout during the strobing.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2014Publication date: October 23, 2014Applicant: OLIVE MEDICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Donald M. Wichern, Joshua D. Talbert, Laurent Blanquart
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Publication number: 20140288373Abstract: The disclosure extends to methods, devices, and systems for removing speckle from a coherent light source, such as laser light. The methods, devices, and systems help eliminate or reduce speckle introduced from a coherent light source, such as laser light, by utilizing the teachings and principles of the disclosure.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: September 25, 2014Applicant: OLIVE MEDICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Jeremiah D. Henley, Joshua D. Talbert, Laurent Blanquart, Donald M. Wichern
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Publication number: 20140288369Abstract: The disclosure extends to endoscopic devices and systems for image rotation for a rigidly coupled image sensor. The disclosure allows for a distal prism to rotate, which changes the angle of view of the user or operator, while the sensor remains fixed at a constant location. This allows the device to be used in the same manner as expected by a user or operator. The user or operator may rotate an outer lumen, thereby changing the angle of view, while the sensor remains in a fixed position and the image viewable on screen remains at a constant horizon. The prism may rotate while the sensor does not rotate, such that the user does not lose orientation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: September 25, 2014Applicant: Olive Medical CorporationInventors: Jeremiah D. Henley, Brian Dean
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Publication number: 20140285645Abstract: The disclosure extends to systems and methods for reducing the area of an image sensor by reducing the imaging sensor pad count used for data transmission and clock generation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2014Publication date: September 25, 2014Applicant: OLIVE MEDICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Laurent Blanquart, Donald M. Wichern
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Publication number: 20140285644Abstract: The disclosure extends to endoscopic devices and systems for image correction of a rotating sensor. The disclosure allows for the distal image sensor to rotate as the user rotates the lumen with respect to a fixed handpiece. The system includes an angle sensor located at the junction of the rotating lumen and the fixed handpiece. Periodic measurements of angle are used in the system's image processing chain in order to effect suitable software image rotations, thereby providing a final displayed image or video stream with the desired orientation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: September 25, 2014Applicant: OLIVE MEDICAL CORPORATIONInventors: John Richardson, Laurent Blanquart, Jeremiah D. Henley, Donald M. Wichern
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Publication number: 20140288365Abstract: The disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for detecting whether an illumination source of an endoscope is in use (inside the body of a patient) versus not in use (outside the body of a patient). The disclosure relies on the fact that the working environment is lit solely by the endoscope and its components. Thus, communication between the illumination or light source controller and the imaging device, such as a surgical camera, is required. When the illumination or light source is turned off and the endoscope is outside the body, a sensor will detect ambient light alerting the illumination source controller that it is outside the body, which then keeps the illumination source off or at a low intensity level. Conversely, when the illumination source is turned off and the endoscope is inside the body, the sensor will not detect any light (or will detect only a very low level of light).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: September 25, 2014Applicant: OLIVE MEDICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Jeremiah D. Henley, Donald M. Wichern, Joshua D. Talbert, Laurent Blanquart, John Richardson
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Publication number: 20140268860Abstract: The disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for controlled illumination in a light deficient environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: OLIVE MEDICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Joshua D. Talbert, Laurent Blanquart, Donald M. Wichern
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Publication number: 20140267653Abstract: The disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for enhancing edges within an image in a light deficient environment, which utilizes knowledge of the expected noise pixel by pixel, to control the strength of the edge enhancement and thereby limit the impact of the enhancement on the perception of noise.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: OLIVE MEDICAL CORPORATIONInventors: John Richardson, Donald M. Wichern
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Publication number: 20140275771Abstract: Endoscopic light refraction imaging techniques are described for configuring a viewing trocar and/or angled endoscope with a light refracting element, such as glass and/or plastic prism for instance. The light refracting element can be utilized in and/or with the viewing trocar to refract (i.e., bend) light passing into the trocar through the trocar's window. As a result, the angled endoscope's field of view can be substantially aligned with the field of view of the trocar's window, thus allowing the angled endoscope and viewing trocar to be used together to create ports in a patient, including initial ports of endoscopic surgical procedures.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Olive Medical CorporationInventors: Jeremiah D. Henley, Joshua D. Talbert, Brian Dean, Perry W. Croll, Marshall Denton, J. Michael Brown
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Publication number: 20140275783Abstract: The disclosure extends to systems and methods for reducing the area of an image sensor by employing bi-directional pads used for both image data issuance and configuration command reception and internal supply voltage generation, for reducing the number of conductors in an endoscope system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: OLIVE MEDICAL CORPORATIONInventor: Laurent Blanquart
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Publication number: 20140267655Abstract: The disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for producing an image in light deficient environments and associated structures, methods and features. The features of the systems and methods described herein may include providing improved resolution and color reproduction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: OLIVE MEDICAL CORPORATIONInventors: John Richardson, Laurent Blanquart
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Publication number: 20140267654Abstract: The disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for producing an image in light deficient environments having cancelled fixed pattern noise.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: OLIVE MEDICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Laurent Blanquart, John Richardson