Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.

Olympus Medical Systems Corporation

Olympus Corporation

Kazunori Segawa

Masataka Kado

Hiroshi Ushiroda

A medical display controlling apparatus and a display controlling method capable of enhancing convenience of medical providers includes generating a three-dimensional model of an observed object based on a right-eye medical captured image and a left-eye medical captured image taken by an imaging device configured to image the observed object; and causing a display screen to display a combination of the three-dimensional model with a right-eye special light observation image and a left-eye special light observation image, or a combination of the three-dimensional model with biological information acquired from an external biological information acquiring apparatus.

Medical display controlling apparatus and display controlling method

[Problem to be Solved] Provided are a medical display controlling apparatus and a display controlling method capable of enhancing convenience of medical providers. [Solution] Provided is a medical display controlling apparatus including: a generating unit configured to generate a three-dimensional model of an observed object based on a right-eye medical captured image and a left-eye medical captured image taken by an imaging device configured to image the observed object; and a display controller configured to cause a display screen to display a combination of the three-dimensional model with a right-eye special light observation image and a left-eye special light observation image, or a combination of the three-dimensional model with biological information acquired from an external biological information acquiring apparatus.

A medical control device includes a focus controller configured to move a focus lens included in an imaging device configured to capture an object image taken in by an endoscope and generate a captured image, and control a focus position, wherein the focus controller is configured to executes remote shooting control for moving the focus lens and setting the focus position in a position of a hyperfocal distance corresponding to the endoscope in a case where an object distance from the endoscope to an object is included in a range of an object distance from the endoscope to the object at which remote shooting is performed.

Medical control device and medical observation system

A control device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire first and second image signals generated by an imaging device having an autofocus function by capturing an observation target irradiated with first light and second light having different wavelength bands, respectively; a signal processor configured to detect detection information of the first and second image signals; and a controller configured to calculate a first focal length based on the detection information of the first image signal, calculate a second focal length based on the detection information of the second image signal, and set a focal length of the imaging device to capture the observation target irradiated with the second light to either the first or second focal length at least based on the detection information of the second image signal.

Control device and medical observation system

A medical image processing device includes circuitry configured to: analyze a blood flow flowing in an observation object based on a medical observation image obtained by capturing an image of the observation object; and generate a difference result between a simulation result of a blood flow flowing in a 3D model acquired in advance for the observation object and an analysis result of a blood flow flowing in the observation object.

Medical image processing device, medical observation system, image processing method, and computer readable medium for analyzing blood flow of observation object before and after surgical restoration

An endoscope apparatus includes an objective optical system that is provided at a distal end portion of an insertion portion of an endoscope which can be inserted into a body cavity of a subject; a temperature sensor unit that detects a temperature of the distal end portion; a heating unit that can generate heat for preventing fogging of the objective optical system; a timer that measures a time period during which the temperature of the distal end portion detected by the temperature sensor unit is equal to or lower than a predetermined temperature; and a control unit that performs control so as to cause the heating unit to generate the heat when the time period measured by the timer continues for a predetermined time period or longer.

Endoscope apparatus which can detect temperature of distal end portion

An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup section that acquires an image by image pickup of an object and acquire digital data of the image, a determining section that determines whether there are a predetermined number or more of consecutive bits with a first bit value or a second bit value in data per pixel included in the digital data, a bit value inversion processing section that inverts, when a determination result that there are the predetermined number or more of consecutive bits with the first or the second bit value is obtained, the bit values so that a ratio between the first bit value and the second bit value included in the corresponding pixel data becomes a predetermined ratio, and a serial conversion section that serializes and outputs the respective bit values of the digital data obtained as the processing result of the bit value inversion processing section.

Image pickup device and image pickup system with bit value inversion

A temperature control apparatus for an endoscope includes: a temperature detection section that detects a temperature of an object to be heated, the object to be heated being heated by a heater; a semiconductor switch that performs switching between supply and shut off of the power to the heater; a control section that controls the semiconductor switch to perform temperature control for the object to be heated, and performs heating stopping control to turn the semiconductor switch off; a mechanical switch that performs switching between continuity and shut off of a power line; and a heating stopping circuit that if an abnormality occurs in temperature control for the heater, performs heating stopping control to turn the mechanical switch off.

Temperature control apparatus for endoscope

An endoscope system includes: an LVDS driver that outputs a differential signal; a differential transmission line that transmits the differential signal outputted from the LVDS driver; a pulse transformer including, in order to input the differential signal transmitted by the differential transmission line, two input terminals connected to an end of the differential transmission line; a resistor functioning as a bypass impedance element connected on an input side of the pulse transformer, to which the differential signal is inputted, in parallel to the pulse transformer and having, at a predetermined noise frequency of noise mixed in the differential transmission line, impedance smaller than circuit impedance of a circuit to which the pulse transformer, which is connected in parallel to the bypass impedance element, is connected; and a dielectric disposed between the two input terminals of the pulse transformer and between lines of the differential transmission line.

Endoscope system with differential signal transmission

An endoscope apparatus of the invention includes an endoscope, camera control unit (CCU), and a trocar. The endoscope includes a heater and a temperature sensor. The CCU is configured to include a resistance value-voltage value conversion section, an analog-digital conversion section, voltage value-temperature table conversion section, a control voltage calculation section, an digital-analog conversion section, a voltage amplification section, a switch control section, and a switch. The trocarincludes an insertion detection sensor.

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Kazunori Segawa