Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.

Sony Corporations

Masashi Murakita

Takahiro Yamamoto

It is desirable to provide a technology capable of further appropriately adjusting the luminance of the endoscopic image. Provided is an image processing device including: an area extraction unit configured to extract, as an extraction area, an area corresponding to the size of an insertion unit from an endoscopic image based on imaging by an image sensor; and an exposure control unit configured to perform exposure control on a basis of an output value of the image sensor in the extraction area.

Image processing device, image processing method, and image processing system

An endoscope system includes circuitry configured to set a plurality of evaluation areas in an endoscope image captured by an image sensor via a scope, adjacent ones of the plurality of evaluation areas being spatially separated from one another, calculate an evaluation value for each of the plurality of evaluation areas, compare an evaluation value of the plurality of evaluation areas, and adjust an image processing on the endoscope image in accordance with a result of the comparison.

Image processing system, image processing device, and image processing method

Image processing device, image processing method, program and image processing system

There is provided a surgical controlling device including an exposure controlling section that performs exposure control based on a luminance detection value detected from a biological image, in which the exposure controlling section corrects, on the basis of information regarding an identified surgical optical device, the luminance detection value so as to correct luminance unevenness arising from the surgical optical device. Further, there is provided a control method including performing, by a processor, exposure control based on a luminance detection value detected from a biological image, in which the performing the exposure control further includes correcting the luminance detection value so as to correct, based on information regarding an identified surgical optical device, luminance unevenness arising from the surgical optical device.

Surgical controlling device, control method, and surgical system

To suppress sudden changes in brightness due to a disturbance in a captured image, provided is a medical observation device, including: an acquisition section that acquires a sensing result of a brightness of an image of a subject in a living organism; and a control section that decides, according to a first interval in which the brightness sensing result indicates a value inside a certain range, a second interval in which to maintain an exposure of an imaging section at an exposure corresponding to a value included in the range.

Medical observation device and medical observation method

[Object] It is desirable to provide a technology capable of further appropriately adjusting the luminance of the endoscopic image. [Solution] Provided is an image processing device including: a peak detection unit configured to detect a first peak and a second peak in sequence from a high luminance side from a number-of-pixel distribution for each luminance of an endoscopic image based on imaging by an image sensor; and an exposure control unit configured to perform exposure control on a basis of a first luminance difference between the first peak and the second peak.

[Object] To suppress sudden changes in brightness due to a disturbance in a captured image. [Solution] Provided is a medical observation device, including: an acquisition section that acquires a sensing result of a brightness of an image of a subject in a living organism; and a control section that decides, according to a first interval in which the brightness sensing result indicates a value inside a certain range, a second interval in which to maintain an exposure of an imaging section at an exposure corresponding to a value included in the range.

Disclosed herein is an imaging device including: a light emission control section configured to obtain a delay time from issuance to a flash of a light emission trigger indicating light emission start timing of the flash to reaching of a predetermined value by light emission luminance of the flash; an imaging control section configured to control exposure start timing on a basis of the delay time; and a correction amount calculating section configured to calculate, on the basis of the delay time, an amount of correction used when brightness of a taken image taken from the exposure start timing is corrected.

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Chiba, Japan

Masashi Murakita