Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Olympus Corporation

Akinobu Uchikubo

Masao Uehara

Katsuyuki Saito

Masahiko Sasaki

Shinji Yamashita

Jun Hasegawa

Masahide Kanno

Katsuyoshi Sasagawa

Takehiro Nakagawa

Takeaki Nakamura

Takashi Ozaki

Masakazu Gotanda

Koichi Tashiro

Tsutomu Hirai

Kenji Kimura

Makoto Tsunakawa

Junichi Onishi

Masahito Goto

Akihiro Miyashita

Hiroki Hibino

Mamoru Kaneko

Kuniaki Kami

Kiyoshi Tsuji

Kenji Harano

Akihiro Taguchi

Akira Murata

Masaya Fujita

Yasukazu Tatsumi

Kenya Inomata

Kyou Imagawa

Hisao Yabe

Yutaka Takahashi

Hitoshi Mizuno

Seiji Yamaguchi

Kazunari Nakamura

Tomohisa Sakurai

Sakae Takehana

Shinichiro Hattori

Atsushi Miyazaki

Koichi Matsui

Masaaki Nakazawa

Koji Takamura

Keiichi Hiyama

Norihiko Hareyama

Hisao Ogiu

Kazunori Taniguchi

Kazunari Kobayashi

Takashi Takemura

Hiroshi Takahashi

Nobuyuki Sakamoto

Akibumi Ishikawa

Kouji Tanikawa

Koji Koda

Akihiko Yajima

Tomoaki Sato

Yoshihiro Kosaka

Satoshi Honma

Yoshito Ichikawa

Mototsugu Ogawa

Toshiyuki Takara

Takechiyo Nakamitsu

Kazuo Sonobe

Shouichi Ieoka

Kazutada Kobayashi

Yoshia Hoshino

Yukiko Nagaoka

Nobuyuki Furukawa

Akira Kusumoto

Satoshi Takemoto

Takao Tabata

Koji Tanikawa

Katuyoshi Sasagawa

Chie Imamiya

Masahide Kanoo

Kyo Imagawa

Hiroyuki Mino

Syouichi Ieoka

Akirhiro Miyashita

A medical operation system includes a controller for controlling a plurality of medical equipments, a communication unit for transmitting and receiving data between each of the plurality of medical equipments and the controller in two-way communications, an information recorder which records, together with time information, information regarding the plurality of medical equipments transmitted and received by the communication unit, a signal processor which extracts predetermined information from the information recorded on the information recorder and processes the predetermined information to generate time-series data, and a display output unit for visualizing the time-series data output from the signal processor and outputting the visualized time-series data to a display.

Medical operation system for verifying and analyzing a medical operation

An object observation method and system including an endoscope, at least one treating device, a first detecting portion for detecting information indicating an observation direction of the endoscope, a second detecting portion for detecting information indicating a treatment direction of the treating device, a three dimensional virtual image data storing portion for storing three dimensional image data prepared in advance, a virtual image data processing portion for creating virtual image data based on the information indicating the observation direction and the treatment direction, first and second three dimensional image display monitors, each having first and second image display devices, and switch sections for instructing change of display mode of the second image display devices.

Object observation system and method utilizing three dimensional imagery and real time imagery during a procedure

A medical procedure support system of the invention includes an endoscope for obtaining images of an internal part of the body cavity of a subject, an endoscopic image creating unit for creating an endoscopic image obtained by the endoscope, an image reading unit for reading a virtual image relating to the subject and a reference image relating to the virtual image, a superimposition commanding unit for commanding to superimpose the reference image on at least one of the virtual image and the endoscopic image, and a combined image creating unit for performing the superimposition of the reference image data commanded by the superimposition commanding unit and creating a combined image thereof.

Medical procedure support system and method

The operation apparatus controller controls a group of apparatuses including multiple medical apparatuses, which respectively can store patient IDs. Also, the operation apparatus controller has a patient ID comparing section which compares the patient ID stored in the various apparatuses within the group of apparatuses and a notifying section which notifies that the compared patient ID matches or does not match, based on the comparison results of the patient ID.

Operation apparatus controller and surgery system

When a surgery and a remote control room in a remote location are connected through a communication circuit to perform an endoscope operation, image information is not encrypted and is sent as it is. Patient data including identification information, a name and so on relating to a patient is encrypted in an encrypting portion and then is sent. In the remote control room side receiving the patient data through the communication circuit, the patient data is decrypted by a decrypting portion when it is determined, based on the header portion, that the received data includes the patient data. Thus, the patient data is restructured and a structure, which can be displayed in a display device, including the image information can be obtained. As a result, the privacy of the patient data can be reserved, and the fast transmission can be achieved at low costs.

Remote medical supporting system

A first controller synthesizes image output of a CCU and a cursor created based on trigger information from a second controller, following location information. The synthesized image is displayed on a first monitor, so an endoscope image and a cursor image which moves synchronously with the cursor image on a display device can be simultaneously viewed at the surgery room side on a single monitor, and accordingly, the problem of the working space inside the surgery room becoming crowded due to providing multiple observation monitors in the surgery room does not occur.

Surgery support system and surgery support method

A medical system wherein multiple medical devices are connected to a system controller which controls the medical devices via communication lines is arranged such that in the event that trouble occurs, a user operates a maintenance button, which causes the system controller to display multiple trouble items relating to the actions of the medical devices on a display panel, and the user specifies a trouble item matching the currently-occurring trouble from the displayed multiple trouble items, whereby the system controller performs estimation processing for recovering from the specified trouble item and displays countermeasures information for recovering from the trouble item based on the estimation processing, and the user performs processing following the displayed countermeasures information, thereby enabling trouble to be efficiently recovered from.

Medical system control apparatus, and method for dealing with trouble with the medical system control apparatus

A first signal transmission apparatus installed in an operating room and a second signal transmission apparatus installed in a remote control room in a remote place are linked by a public line. Assuming that surgery is performed on a patient using a surgical instrument in the operating room while endoscopic images are viewed, the surgical instrument can be controlled using a first controller. The contents of control and patient data are displayed on a display device via a second controller connected to the second signal transmission apparatus. The state of the surgical instrument and the patient data can always be checked in the remote control room. Surgical instructions or any other surgical support can be given easily.

Remote surgery support system

Using an endoscope system, a surgeon A holds an endoscope with a TV camera (hereinafter, an endoscope) and a therapeutic appliance such as forceps and carries out a surgical procedure while viewing a first monitor. A surgeon B holds a therapeutic appliance such as forceps and carries out the surgical procedure while viewing a second monitor. A video signal sent from the TV camera of the endoscope is fed to and processed by an image processing apparatus, and displayed on each of the first and second monitors. The image processing apparatus transfers the video signal sent from the endoscope to each of an image inverting circuit and a selector switch. The image inverting circuit inverts an image (laterally (to produce a mirror image), vertically, or vertically and laterally (180&deg;)), and supplies a processed video signal to the selector switch. The selector switch selects a video signal to be supplied to each of the first and second monitors, which are display units, in response to a control signal sent from a selector. The contents of processing to be performed by the image inverting circuit and the video signal to be selected by the selector are designated using setting switches on an operation panel.

Image processing apparatus for performing turn or mirror inversion on an input video signal and outputting different images simultaneously

A first signal transmission apparatus installed in an operating room and a second signal transmission apparatus installed in a remote control room in a remote place are linked by a public line. Assuming that surgery is performed on a patient using a surgical instrument in the operating room while endoscopic images are viewed, the surgical instrument can be controlled using a first controller. The control and patient data are displayed on a display device via a second controller connected to the second signal transmission apparatus. The state of the surgical instrument and the patient data can always be checked in the remote control room. Surgical instructions or any other surgical support can be given easily.

According to a remote operation support system, a physician present in a remote place can view endoscopic images displayed in an operating room over a communication line, and change an image area or a viewing direction represented by endoscopic images in a desired manner by performing manipulations. The physician present in the remote place can thus support an operator present in the operating room. An endoscope system installed in the operating room and a remote control system installed in a control room located in the remote place are linked using a public communication line. The endoscope system has a signal transmission apparatus installed in the operating room. The signal transmission apparatus in the operating room converts a video signal and a control signal or patient data, which are produced by a CCU and a system controller respectively, and outputs resultant signals over the public line. The remote control system has a signal transmission apparatus installed in the control room. The signal transmission apparatus in the control room is connected on the public line and converts the transmitted signals into the original signals. A second monitor and a remote controller are connected to the transmission apparatus.

Remote operation support system and method

A plurality of pieces of medical equipment each of which includes a microcomputer and has a program used to control the microcomputer stored in a reproqrammable storage device such as an EEPROM is linked to a remote computer over a communication line. Using a rewriting/updating program sent from the computer, each piece of medical equipment rewrites or updates the program stored in the storage device. When a plurality of programs is stored, if one of the programs is rewritten or updated abnormally, the other program is used to activate medical equipment.

Medical apparatus supporting system

A medical system having an endoscope probe intubated into a body, a signal processing circuit for processing a signal for the probe and an electric source circuit insulated from a commercial electric source. A part of the signal processing circuit connected to the probe is isolated by an isolation circuit to secure the safety. An impedance element is employed to prevent a malfunction by reducing an emission/permeation of noises. No adverse influence is thereby exerted on outside units.

Endoscope system having reduced noise emission/permeation

A medical system control apparatus including a plurality of pieces of medical equipment having respective identification numbers thereof individually, and having display portions on which setting conditions or operating conditions are displayed and operating portions for modifying the setting conditions or the operating conditions which are displayed on the display portions, a centralized controller for controlling the plurality of pieces of medical equipment, a centralized display device connected to the controller and provided with a display portion which displays the display contents of the plurality of pieces of medical equipment, a centralized operation device connected to the controller for controlling the setting conditions or the operating conditions which are displayed on the display portions of the plurality of pieces of medical equipment, and a communication device for enabling the plurality of pieces of medical equipment, the centralized display device and the centralized operation device and the controller to communicate with each other in a bidirectional manner.

System control apparatus, medical system control apparatus and

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