Patent ID: 8810638

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a body-insertable imaging device including a stereo camera, the stereo camera comprising: a first image sensor and a second image sensor within a shared implantable housing having a first lens opening and a second lens opening; a first lens configured to pass incident light onto the first image sensor and a second lens configured to pass incident light onto the second image sensor; a control interface configured to receive a remotely generated control signal; and a body-insertable actuator communicatively coupled to the control interface and configured to support the stereo camera and to be activated by the remotely generated control signal to manipulate the stereo camera and shared implantable housing including rotation about a pan axis orthogonal to the imaging device, rotation about a tilt axis having a direction of an elongated axis of the imaging device, and movement along a zoom direction in response to the control signal while the stereo camera and actuator are within a body cavity, wherein the zoom direction extends from a camera end of the body-insertable stereo camera.