Encasement platform for smartdevice for attachment to endoscope
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US-11903562-B2
Publication Date
2024-02-20
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Abstract
A case or encasement for use with a smartdevice, such as a smartphone or tablet and an endoscope is disclosed. The encasement includes a power supply, logic for controlling wireless communications, a light source, and other accessories, for use with an endoscope. In an embodiment, the encasement includes a power supply that may be used to charge a smartdevice, power a light source and a wireless communications module. Other embodiments include a mechanism for communicating between the smartdevice and the encasement to control the light source and any other accessories coupled to the encasement.
Core Innovation
A device is provided that includes a case with a rear cover for encasing a smart device. The rear cover hosts a circuit board, a light source, and a battery, with the circuit board coupled to the battery and the light source powered by the battery. The light source includes a high intensity lamp configured to output light into an endoscope when the light source is coupled to the endoscope so that the endoscope can be used to inspect a cavity via the light.
The case arrangement is defined so that the high intensity lamp is not co-aligned with a camera of the smart device when the case encases the smart device. Instead, the camera co-aligns with the endoscope, thereby defining a co-alignment relationship between the smart device camera and the endoscope while avoiding co-alignment of the lamp with the camera. An outer side of the rear cover hosts the light source while an inner side hosts the circuit board and the battery.
In another configuration, the case hosts a short range wireless communications circuit, the light source, and the battery in the rear cover. The short range wireless communications circuit is configured to wirelessly communicate with a smart device having a camera when the case encases the smart device such that the light source is controllable from the smart device, the light source is not co-aligned with the camera, and the camera co-aligns with an endoscope coupled to the light source for inspecting a cavity based on the light.
Claims Coverage
The partial content includes two independent claims. Both claims focus on a case that encases a smart device and provides an endoscope light source powered by a battery, while ensuring the lamp is not co-aligned with the camera and that the camera co-aligns with the endoscope for cavity inspection; one claim additionally emphasizes short range wireless communications for controlling the light source from the smart device.
Battery powered endoscope light source in a rear-cover case
A case including a rear cover hosting a circuit board, a light source, and a battery, with the circuit board coupled to the battery and the light source coupled to the battery, wherein the rear cover inner side hosts the circuit board and the battery and the outer side hosts the light source, and wherein the light source includes a high intensity lamp configured to be powered by the battery and thereby output a light into an endoscope when the light source is coupled to the endoscope so that the endoscope can be used to inspect a cavity via the light.
Lamp not co-aligned with smart device camera with camera co-aligned to endoscope
The high intensity lamp is not co-aligned with a camera of a smart device when the case encases the smart device, and the camera co-aligns with the endoscope.
Short range wireless communications controllable endoscope light source
A case including a rear cover hosting a short range wireless communications circuit, a light source, and a battery, with the short range wireless communications circuit coupled to the battery and the light source coupled to the battery, wherein the inner side hosts the short range wireless communications circuit and the battery and the outer side hosts the light source, and wherein the short range wireless communications circuit is configured to wirelessly communicate with a smart device having a camera when the case encases the smart device such that the light source is controllable from the smart device, the light source is not co-aligned with the camera, and the camera co-aligns with an endoscope coupled to the light source for the endoscope to be used to inspect a cavity based on the light source.
Across the independent claims, the inventive coverage centers on a rear-cover case that powers a high intensity endoscope light source from an internal battery, enforces a non-co-alignment condition between the light source and the smart device camera, and maintains a co-alignment relationship between the smart device camera and the endoscope for cavity inspection; one claim further specifies short range wireless communications to control the light source from the smart device.
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