Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.

Shinji Katsuki

Yasumasa Kodama

Motoaki Kobayashi

Takashi Hishinuma

Takashi Fukushima

Kissei Matsumoto

Masaki Kawano

Takuya Nakamura

Katsuki Fuchu

Koichi Akasaka

Hiroshi Fujii

Takashi Kawakami

Hiroshi Saitoh

Kazuo Watanabe

Yohei Kuroda

Nobuyoshi Tomita

Kei Tomatsu

Yugo Katsuki

Mitsuaki Shiraga

Manabu Hatakenaka

Takayoshi Hirai

Kana Matsuura

Takahiro Kusuyama

Takashi Fukushimai

Daisuke Nagao

Masahiro Take

There is provided a medical observation device that includes an imaging unit that can image an environment inside an abdominal cavity of a living body, and the imaging unit includes a plurality of first pixels that are aligned in a matrix, and an event detection unit that detects a luminance change amount of light incident on each of the plurality of first pixels exceeds a predetermined threshold.

Medical observation device, observation device, observation method, and adapter

A medical image processing system includes an acquisition unit that acquires a real-time 3D surgical image of an operation site stereoscopically viewable by a surgeon and a 3D model image that is a stereoscopic CG image associated with the 3D surgical image, and a superimposition unit that performs enhancement such that the location of the 3D model image at predetermined spatial positions is enhanced with respect to the 3D surgical image or the 3D model image at the start of superimposition of the 3D model image at the predetermined spatial positions when the 3D surgical image is stereoscopically viewed on the basis of information set for the 3D model image.

Medical image processing system, surgical image control device, and surgical image control method

Provided are a medical system, a communication method, an imaging device, an information processing device, and an endoscope system capable of stably transmitting sensor signals output from a sensor that obtains data in a living body by wireless communication. The medical system includes the sensor that is provided in or connected to an insertion part to be inserted into a living body via an insertion aid and obtains the data in the living body, and a sensor communication unit that serves as a communication unit that transmits, by wireless communication, a first sensor signal output from the sensor to an aid communication unit that serves as a communication unit provided in the insertion aid.

Medical system, communication method, imaging device, information processing device, and endoscope system

The present technology is a surgical image display system, an image processing device, and an image processing method that enable to assist grasping of a distance in a depth direction in a space in which a stereoscopic image is reproduced when a three-dimensional image is stereoscopically viewed. An image of an observation region is shot from two different viewpoints, and a three-dimensional image that reproduces a stereoscopic image of the observation region is acquired. There is generated an output image that outputs the acquired three-dimensional image and depth distortion information that represents magnitude of distortion in a depth direction in a stereoscopic image space in which a stereoscopic image of the observation region is reproduced by stereoscopically viewing the three-dimensional image. The present technology can be applied to an operative field camera system for medical facilities that shoots an image of a field of view (operative field) of a surgical site.

Surgical image display system, image processing device, and image processing method

The present disclosure relates to a surgery support system, a display control device, and a display control method in which a plurality of images can be displayed in an easy-to-see and efficient manner. An information processing device generates a composite image by compositing images output from a plurality of electronic instruments including a medical instrument, and adds, to the composite image, metadata related to division of the composite image. The display control device controls a display device to display, in the virtual three-dimensional space, divided images obtained by dividing the composite image into a plurality of divided regions on the basis of the metadata. The present disclosure can be applied to an endoscopic surgical system, for example.

Surgery support system, display control device, and display control method

A medical display device includes a display device capable of changing the degree of transparency of a display screen, a holding device that holds the display device, and a control device that controls the degree of transparency of the display screen and controls display on the display screen, wherein the display device is held by the holding device so as to be arranged between an operation part of a patient and a medical worker who performs medical practice for the patient.

Medical display device and medical observation device

An imaging system includes an imaging device that images a predetermined imaging area, an illumination device that performs irradiation with illumination light so as to illuminate an imaging area and is capable of adjusting a light amount of the illumination light for each of local regions narrower than the imaging area, and a control unit that controls the imaging device and the illumination device. Then, a high-luminance region having a luminance value exceeding a predetermined luminance range is detected in an image captured by the imaging device, and a light amount of illumination light with which the illumination device irradiates a local region corresponding to the high-luminance region is determined to be a reduction light amount reduced to be less than a light amount with respect to overall of the imaging area. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a camera system for operation.

Imaging system and control device for determining high-luminance region and reduction light amount to illuminate region

[Problem] Both the synchronization between multiple devices for the timing in which a left-eye image and a right-eye image forming a medical image are displayed and the suppression of the delay in presenting an image to a predetermined viewer are enabled. [Solution] A medical-image display control device includes: a display controller that controls a medical image so as to be displayed on a slave-side display unit; and an acquiring unit that acquires, from another device including a master-side display unit different from the slave-side display unit, a synchronization signal that corresponds to timing in which the other device displays a left-eye image and a right-eye image on the master-side display unit, and the display controller controls a left-eye image and a right-eye image so as to be displayed on the slave-side display unit in a time-division manner in accordance with the acquired synchronization signal.

Medical-image display control device, medical image display device, medical-information processing system, and medical-image display control method

There is provided a medical image display apparatus including: a display control section that performs control such that a left-eye image and a right-eye image that form a medical image are displayed in a time division manner on a predetermined display section; and a communication section that transmits a synchronization signal in accordance with display timings of the left-eye image and the right-eye image on the display section to shutter glasses that include a left-eye shutter and a right-eye shutter, and receives a response to the synchronization signal from the shutter glasses. The display control section performs the control such that only any one of the left-eye image and the right-eye image is displayed on the display section in accordance with a reception status of the response.

Medical image display apparatus, medical information processing system, and medical image display control method

A communication device includes a communication unit having plural function operation units performing communication with an external device at plural prescribed communication speeds, and a control unit allowing the communication unit to receive a given kind of content data from the external device, estimating an optimum prescribed communication speed in which the power consumption amount becomes smallest from the plural prescribed communication speeds based on a bit rate of the content data, selecting a given function operation unit from the plural function operation units based on the estimated optimum communication speed, allowing the selected function operation unit to receive the given kind of content data at the estimated prescribed communication speed and controlling power consumption to the function operation units other than the function operation unit selected from the plural function operation units to be less than a fixed value.

Data communication device, data communication method and program thereof

Disclosed herein is a portable type content reproducing device for reproducing content data, said portable type content reproducing device including, a radio communication unit, a nonvolatile storage unit, a reproduction processing unit, a connection controlling unit, and a reception controlling unit.

Content reproducing device, content reproducing system, automatic content receiving method, and automatic content transferring method

The invention provides an image processing apparatus wherein, when an image of an imaging object is picked up and converted into image data and the image data is compressed, the data amount can be reduced without deteriorating the picture quality. The image processing apparatus includes an image pickup section for picking up an image of an imaging object and converting the image into image data, a compression section for compressing the image data and outputting the compressed data, a detection section for detecting a data amount of the compressed data, and a control section for controlling an optical condition for the image picked up by the image pickup section in response to the data amount of the compressed data detected by the detection section. The compression section compresses the image data obtained by the conversion of the image pickup section based on the optical condition controlled by the control section.

Image processing apparatus, method, and medium for converting and reducing image data without deterioration of image quality

Image processing apparatus, image processing method and medium

A recording and/or reproducing apparatus for an optical disc having a pit area where data has been recorded and also having a grooved area where data is to be recorded includes an optical pickup, an error signal generating unit, a shift signal generating unit and a servo controller. The optical pickup includes an objective lens for converging a light beam on a signal surface of the optical disc, a photodetector for receiving the light beam reflected from the signal surface and an actuator for moving the objective lens in a direction perpendicular to its optical axis. The shift signal generating unit is responsive to the output signal of the photodetector to generate a lens shift signal corresponding to the amount of shift of the objective lens from its neutral position. The servo controller drives the actuator based on the lens shift signal or the error signal to move the objective lens along the radial direction of the optical disc.

Optical disk recording and/or reproducing apparatus and access method

A recording apparatus for storing input video and audio data temporarily in a memory, reading out back the video and audio data from the memory and recording the video and audio data into a recording medium wherein a storage-size of the memory is found and video data to be stored in the memory is thinned in accordance with the storage-size so that audio data of a minimum required amount can be stored in the memory to prevent continuity of audio data recorded in the recording medium from becoming unsustainable.

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Tokyo, Japan

Shinji Katsuki