Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Hisakazu Shiraki

Tetsujiro Kondo

Takahiro Nagano

Masanori Kanemaru

Yasuhiro Suto

Tsutomu Watanabe

Yuki Sugie

Tetsushi Kokubo

Masahito Yamane

Kentaro Fukazawa

Michimasa Obana

Kazushi Yoshikawa

Hideo Kasama

Takashi Nakamura

Naoki Fujiwara

Junichi Ishibashi

Hideo Nakaya

Noriaki Takahashi

Koji Kashima

Hiromi Yoshinari

Daisuke Tsuru

Shinichiro Kaneko

Yoshinori Takagi

Hiroshi Ichiki

Yasuaki Takahashi

Kenji Ikeda

Takeshi Uemori

Kenji Takahasi

Daisuke Kikuchi

Takeshi Miyai

Yuji Okumura

Yasunobu Node

Akira Tange

Seiji Wada

Kenji Takahashi

Kenta Yamaguchi

Toru Mitome

Katsuhisa Shinmei

Takami Mizukura

Tsuneo Hayashi

Koji Ohta

Yukihiro Nakamura

Akihiro Okumura

Tomoyuki Hirayama

Toshihiko Hamamatsu

Hideki Ohtsuka

Masaya Takemoto

Tadashi Morishige

A surgical information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a surgical image; a determination unit that determines whether additional information is attached to the surgical image acquired by the acquisition unit; and a processing unit that performs first image processing when the determination unit has determined that the additional information is not attached, and does not perform the first image processing when the determination unit has determined that the additional information is attached.

Medical information processing apparatus, medical information processing method, and medical information processing program

Provided is a medical observation system that includes a first medical signal processing device including a first signal processing unit that acquires first image data corresponding to a result of image capturing of an affected part by a medical observation device and provides first signal processing to the first image data, and a second medical signal processing device including a second signal processing unit that acquires second image data corresponding to the result of image capturing from the first medical signal processing device through a predetermined network and provides second signal processing to the second image data. The second signal processing unit transmits information related to the second signal processing to the first medical signal processing device. The first signal processing unit controls the first signal processing based on the second signal processing.

Medical observation system, medical signal processing device, and medical signal processing device driving method

An image processing apparatus includes: a blurring amount estimation unit configured to estimate a blurring amount of a medical image including a biological body motion of a subject; and a blurring correction processing unit configured to perform blurring correction processing so as not to remove a screen motion caused by the biological body motion, on a basis of the blurring amount. This configuration makes it possible to correct blurring without removing a screen motion caused by a biological body motion. Thus, an optimum image for observing a biological body motion can be obtained.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and medical system to correct image blurrings

A medical observation system including a medical imaging device that captures a plurality of images of a living body while changing a focus position, and circuitry that generates a composite image by compositing the plurality of images captured by the medical imaging device, and switches output between the generated composite image and one of the plurality of images based on a result of analysis performed on at least one of the plurality of images.

Medical image processing apparatus, medical image processing method, and medical observation system

An information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and an endoscope system capable of providing an optimal video image to an operator in accordance with surgical scenes are provided. A processing mode determination unit determines, in accordance with surgical scenes, a processing mode for an in-vivo image captured by an imaging apparatus including an imaging element arranged so as to enable pixel shift processing, and an image combining unit processes an image output from the imaging apparatus, in accordance with the processing mode. The present technology is applicable to, for example, an endoscope system for imaging a living body with an endoscope.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and endoscope system for processing images based on surgical scenes

An image processing part applies an image process by software to a surgical region image, and a display control part controls a display of the surgical region image to which the image process is applied. The image processing part produces a pre-update processed image acquired by applying the image process established before updating the software to the surgical region image and a post-update processed image acquired by applying the image process established after updating the software to the surgical region image, and the display control part controls a display of at least a portion of at least either one of the pre-update processed image or the post-update processed image. The present technique is applicable to a CCU of an endoscopic surgery system.

Surgical image processing apparatus, image processing method, and surgery system

To correct blurring without removing a screen motion caused by a biological body motion. [Solution] An image processing apparatus includes: a blurring amount estimation unit configured to estimate a blurring amount of a medical image including a biological body motion of a subject; and a blurring correction processing unit configured to perform blurring correction processing so as not to remove a screen motion caused by the biological body motion, on a basis of the blurring amount. This configuration makes it possible to correct blurring without removing a screen motion caused by a biological body motion. Thus, an optimum image for observing a biological body motion can be obtained.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and medical system to correct blurring without removing a screen motion caused by a biological body motion

There is provided an information processing apparatus including a control unit that controls display on the basis of a detection value indicating a focus state of a lens acquired from a stereoscopic imaging unit, and a captured image signal for a left eye and a captured image signal for a right eye acquired from the imaging unit.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing system

Provided is a control apparatus including a ratio calculation unit that calculates a first ratio of a bit assignment relating to transmission of a biological image on the basis of image capture conditions and a bit assignment determination unit that determines the bit assignment on the basis of the first ratio. In addition, provided is a control system including an image capture apparatus that captures an image of an object, the control apparatus including the ratio calculation unit that calculates the first ratio on the basis of the image capture conditions relating to the object, the bit assignment determination unit that determines the bit assignment, an image processing unit that performs image processing based on the captured image and the bit assignment and generates the biological image, and an output apparatus that outputs the biological image based on the bit assignment.

Control apparatus, control system, and control method for transmission of a biological image

A medical system including a medical imaging device, and circuitry that obtains a plurality of first images each having a different phase from the medical imaging device, combines each of the plurality of first images a plurality of times to generate a plurality of second images, wherein each time of the plurality of times that the plurality of first images are combined, a different candidate process is used in the combining, and selects one image from the plurality of second images as an output image for display, the selected one image being higher quality than any one of the plurality of first images.

Surgery control apparatus, surgery control method, program, and surgery system

Provided are an image processing device, an image processing method, and an endoscope system that can reduce a burden on a user. A parallax amount adjustment unit adjusts the parallax amount of a three-dimensional (3D) biological image of an imaged living organism, depending on whether the parallax of the 3D biological image puts a burden on a user.

Image processing device, image processing method, and endoscope system

[Object] Observation is made possible by switching between a stereoscopic vision image and a depth-of-field extended image correspondingly to a situation. [Solution] An image processing device according to the present disclosure, includes a photographing situation acquiring section that acquires information with regard to a photographing situation of an image for a left eye or an image for a right eye, and a determining section that determines correspondingly to the information with regard to the photographing situation whether to perform stereoscopic vision image processing for the image for a left eye or the image for a right eye, or whether to perform two-dimensional depth-of-field extension processing with at least one of the image for a left eye or the image for a right eye. With this, it becomes possible to observe by switching between a stereoscopic vision image and a depth-of-field extended image correspondingly to a situation.

Image processing device, image processing method, program, and image processing system that use parallax information

There is provided a surgical system including a monitoring sensor configured to sense a characteristic of a surgical site within a body, in a sensing region of the surgical site which includes at least a part of a region outside a display field of an endoscope, and circuitry configured to detect an occurrence of a medical abnormality in the region outside the display field of the endoscope based on a result of the sensing by the monitoring sensor, and generate notification information regarding the detected medical abnormality.

Surgical system, information processing device, and method

There is provided a control apparatus that includes an estimating section calculating motion of an entire image on the basis of an image signal corresponding to an optical image of a living organism input from an imaging section of a medical observation apparatus, to estimate blurring of the entire image according to a result of the calculation, and a control section controlling an operation related to correction of the blurring of the entire image by controlling a coefficient for controlling an amount of correction of the blurring on the basis of a zoom magnification of the imaging section such that a degree of correction of the blurring increases consistently with the zoom magnification.

Control apparatus and control method

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Hisakazu Shiraki