Patents Assigned to Given Imaging LTD
  • In vivo sensing devices and methods of identification thereof
    Patent number: 8348830
    Abstract: An in-vivo sensing device for capturing sensed data of the gastrointestinal tract, or other body lumens or cavities of a patient, and for transmitting the sensed data to a data recorder external to the patient. The in-vivo sensing device has an identifier code associated with it. The sensed data may be transmitted to the data recorder together with the identifier code so that the received sensed data can be correlated with the in-vivo sensing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Given Imaging Ltd.
    Inventors: Ido Bettesh, Micha Nisani, Boaz Aizenshtark
  • Device, system and method for measurement and analysis of contractile activity
    Patent number: 8335362
    Abstract: A method and system for determining intestinal dysfunction condition are provided by classifying and analyzing image frames captured in-vivo. The method and system also relate to the detection of contractile activity in intestinal tracts, to automatic detection of video image frames taken in the gastrointestinal tract including contractile activity, and more particularly to measurement and analysis of contractile activity of the GI tract based on image intensity of in vivo image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Given Imaging Ltd.
    Inventors: Fernando Vilarino, Panagiota Spyridonos, Petia Radeva, Jordi Vitria, Fernando Azpiroz, Juan Malagelada
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING POWER CONSUMPTION OF AN IN VIVO DEVICE
    Publication number: 20120271104
    Abstract: A method and device may control energy consumption of in an in vivo imaging device by determining or estimating an amount of energy needed to capture images at a frame rate until a complete passage of the device through a predetermined region of the gastrointestinal tract, and alter or limit the frame capture rate accordingly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: Given Imaging Ltd
    Inventors: Semion Khait, Eli Horn, Micha Nisani, Ofra Zinaty
  • Device, system and method for in-vivo analysis
    Patent number: 8290556
    Abstract: A device, system and method of in-vivo analysis. An in-vivo device may include a chromatography unit to interact in-vivo with a body lumen substance, and a sensor to sense in-vivo a property of the chromatography unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Given Imaging Ltd.
    Inventors: Elisha Rabinovitz, Gavriel J. Iddan
  • Data recorder, system and method for transmitting data received from an in-vivo sensing device
    Patent number: 8279059
    Abstract: An in-vivo sensing system including an in-vivo sensing device, a data recorder a receiver and a work station. The data recorder receives data signal from the in-vivo sensing device during an acquisition period. Batches of the data signal may be transmitted from the data recorder to a receiver, as soon as a batch has been received by the data recorder. The batches of data signal received by the receiver may be downloaded to the workstation as soon as each batch is received by the receiver. Signals are typically transmitted from the data recorder to the receiver through wireless transmission techniques such as cellular transmission, WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) transmission, BT (BlueTooth) transmission and Wimax (Worldwide interoperability for Microwave Access) transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Given Imaging Ltd.
    Inventors: Kevin Rubey, Ido Bettesh, Eli Horn, Micha Nisani, Boaz Aizenshtark, Alexander Veinblat, Avidor Rabinovich, Uri Kogan, Pesach Pascal
  • Device and method for uniform in vivo illumination
    Patent number: 8262566
    Abstract: An in vivo imaging device comprises a viewing window, an illumination unit, a lens holder and a light guide. The light guide may be positioned to create uniformly dispersed illumination and to eliminate backscatter from the viewing window. The light guide may guide light from the illumination unit to a desired position within the in vivo device. In one embodiment, the light guide may be embedded into the lens holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Given Imaging Ltd.
    Inventors: Zvika Gilad, Amit Pascal
  • Device, system and method for in vivo analysis
    Patent number: 8249681
    Abstract: Devices, systems and method for in vivo analysis. For example, an in vivo device includes: a reaction chamber to store a detecting reagent able to react with a sample collected in vivo; and optionally a labeled-substance chamber to store a labeled substance able to bind to at least a portion of a compound resulting from a reaction of the detecting reagent and the sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Given Imaging Ltd.
    Inventor: Elisha Rabinovitz
  • System and method for presentation of data streams
    Patent number: 8228333
    Abstract: An in-vivo sensing system and a method for creating a summarized graphical presentation of a data stream captured in-vivo. The graphical presentation may be in the form of for example a color bar. The color bar may be a fixed display along side a streaming display of the data stream. A cursor or other indicator may move along the fixed color bar as the data stream is displayed and/or streamed so as to indicate to a health professional what part of the data stream may be currently displayed. The color content in the color bar may map out the data stream and give indication of the location of anatomical sites as well as possible locations of pathology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Given Imaging Ltd.
    Inventors: Eli Horn, Hagai Krupnik
  • Device, system and method for selective activation of in vivo sensors
    Patent number: 8216130
    Abstract: A device, system and method for selectively activating or altering the operational mode of an autonomous in vivo device in response to in vivo conditions. They system may include an in vivo sensing device with a condition tester, and a controller. The in vivo sensing device may be in communications with an external receiver. The condition tester may include at least one layer of a dissolvable material coated on at least a portion of the autonomous device. The layer may dissolve when exposed to a specific material of a specified site along the GI tract. A sensor may be exposed when the layer dissolves or a switch autonomously activated with the layer dissolves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Given Imaging Ltd.
    Inventors: Arkady Glukhovsky, Mordechsi Frisch, Tal Davidson, Gavriel Meron
  • Delivery device for implantable monitor
    Patent number: 8219171
    Abstract: A system, device, and method for placing a capsule for sensing one or more parameters of a patient by anchoring the capsule to a tissue at a specific site and releasing the capsule from the device, using a single actuator operated during a single motion. As an example, a delivery device may anchor the capsule to the tissue site and release the capsule from the delivery device during a single motion of the actuator. This allows a user to place the capsule by interacting with only a single actuator through one type of motion, thus making delivery of the capsule more reliable and user-friendly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Given Imaging Ltd.
    Inventor: William Brent Benoist
  • Apparatus, system and method to indicate in-vivo device location
    Patent number: 8206285
    Abstract: A system, apparatus and method may indicate in-vivo device (10) location within a body utilizing for example illumination irregularities for calculation of location. There may be provided with an in-vivo imaging device (24) a set of dedicated illumination sources (43) and a set of detectors (30) located on an in-vivo device, such as a swallowable capsule (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Given Imaging Ltd.
    Inventor: Alex Blijevsky
  • Dual polarized dipole wearable antenna
    Patent number: 8203497
    Abstract: A dual polarized dipole wearable antenna may be embedded within a shirt or/and outfit, placed at a range of up to few millimeters from the body of a user in which there is a transmitting swallowable imaging device. The antenna is constructed of three conducting layers: radiating layer, feed network layer and ground layer, separated by two dielectric substrate layers. The feed network layer may receive and transmit horizontally polarized signals. When placed one on top of the other, parallel strips of the radiating layer are disposed against a longitudinal strip of the feed network layer, and stubs of the feed network layer are disposed across a slot of the radiating layer. The slot of the radiating layer may be excited by radiation from, and be in interaction with the stubs of the feed network layer to receive and transmit vertically polarized signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Given Imaging Ltd.
    Inventor: Albert Sabban
  • System and method for displaying an image stream
    Patent number: 8204573
    Abstract: A system and method may allow displaying a plurality of image streams, where the image streams may be divided, for example into a number of selected subset couplet images which follow predetermined criteria. According to some embodiments, each couplet may be displayed simultaneously or substantially simultaneously. A workstation may accept the images acquired by, for example a capsule and may display the images on a monitor as a moving image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Given Imaging Ltd.
    Inventor: Tal Davidson
  • Device and system for in vivo imaging
    Patent number: 8194123
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for obtaining in vivo images. The system contains an imaging system and a transmitter for transmitting signals from a camera to a receiving system located outside a patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Given Imaging Ltd.
    Inventors: Gavriel J. Iddan, Dov Avni, Arkady Glukhovsky, Gavriel Meron
  • System and method for assessing a patient condition using tertiles derived from capsule endoscope images of the small bowel
    Patent number: 8185185
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed, which combine image data of a patient, such as images of the patient's GI tract, with rating mucosal damage. According to some embodiments of the present invention the system and method are able to assess a patient's GI tract condition, to monitor mucosal healing in a patient's GI tract, preferably, the small bowel (SB) mucosa and/or to differentiate between different pathological conditions. The system and method of the invention can provide a value or score arrived at by assigning a grade relating to one or more predetermined parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Given Imaging Ltd.
    Inventors: Mark G. Gilreath, Blair Lewis, Mordechai Frisch, Deborah Mutter, Hagit Ephrath, Eddie Rudyk, Alan I. Klevens, Tal Davidson
  • System and method for displaying an image stream
    Patent number: 8164672
    Abstract: A system and method may display an image stream (200), where an original image stream may be divided into two or more subset images streams, each subset image stream being displayed simultaneously or substantially simultaneously in each time slot (210A-240D) may be variably adjusted based on a predetermined criterion. The images may be collected from an ingestible capsule traversing the GI tract.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Given Imaging Ltd.
    Inventors: Gavriel Meron, Hagai Krupnik
  • System and method for in-vivo imaging
    Patent number: 8159549
    Abstract: An in-vivo imaging device including a camera may include a frame storage device. Systems and methods which vary the frame capture rate of the camera and/or frame display rate of the display unit of in-vivo camera systems are discussed. The capture rate is varied based on physical measurements related to the motion of the camera. Alternatively, the frame capture rate is varied based on comparative image processing of a plurality of frames. The frame display rate of the system is varied based on comparative image processing of a multiplicity of frames. Both the frame capture and the frame display rates of such systems can be varied concurrently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Given Imaging Ltd.
    Inventors: Arkady Glukhovsky, Gavriel Meron, Doron Adler, Ofra Zinati, Jerome Avron
  • Device, system and method of in-vivo varix detection
    Patent number: 8155414
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods of in-vivo varix detection. For example, a system may include a processor to automatically detect a varix in an in-vivo image. The processor may automatically identify a protrusion into a lumen of a gastro-intestinal tract. The processor may automatically identify substantially blue areas of the protrusion. The processor may generate an indication to a user that a varix was detected in an in-vivo image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Given Imaging Ltd.
    Inventor: Daniel Shmuel Afik
  • Real-time exposure control for automatic light control
    Patent number: 8149326
    Abstract: An imager and a method for real-time, non-destructive monitoring of light incident on imager pixels during their exposure to light. Real-time or present pixel signals, which are indicative of present illumination on the pixels, are compared to a reference signal during the exposure. Adjustments, if necessary, are made to programmable parameters such as gain and/or exposure time to automatically control the imager's exposure to the light. In a preferred exemplary embodiment, only a selected number of pixels are monitored for exposure control as opposed to monitoring the entire pixel array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignees: Micron Technology, Inc., Given Imaging, Ltd.
    Inventors: Alf Olsen, Espen A. Olsen, Jorgen Moholt, Steinar Iversen, Dov Avni, Arkady Glukhovsky
  • System and method for presentation of data streams
    Patent number: 8144152
    Abstract: An in-vivo sensing system and a method for creating a summarized graphical presentation of a data stream captured in-vivo. The graphical presentation may be in the form of for example a color bar. The color bar may be a fixed display along side a streaming display of the data stream. A cursor or other indicator may move along the fixed color bar as the data stream is displayed and/or streamed so as to indicate to a health professional what part of the data stream may be currently displayed. The color content in the color bar may map out the data stream and give indication of the location of anatomical sites as well as possible locations of pathology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Given Imaging, Ltd.
    Inventors: Eli Horn, Hagal Krupnik