Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Holdings Corporation

Takashi Nitta

Etsuro Hatano

Satoru Seo

Takashi Suzuki

Tomoyuki Saito

Hisashi Nishida

Masahiro Takada

An image projection apparatus includes a detector that detects a first region emitting non-visible light; a projector that projects a visible-light image onto a second region including the first region detected by the detector; and a controller configured to generate the visible-light image. The controller varies colors of pixels of the visible-light image in a stepwise manner depending on emission intensities of the non-visible light at positions corresponding to the pixels within the first region.

Image projection apparatus

A visible light projection device includes a detecting unit that detects a first region emitting non-visible light, a projecting unit that performs projection using visible light onto a second region including the detected first region, and a control unit that controls the projecting unit to perform projection with a color selected by an operator. When a first color is selected as a color of visible light projected by the projecting unit onto a region other than the first region, the control unit informs the operator of first options to allow a color of visible light projected onto the first region to be selected from the first options. When a second color different from the first color is selected, the control unit informs the operator of second options to allow a color of visible light projected onto the first region to be selectable from the second options.

Visible light projection device for surgery to project images on a patient

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Kyoto, Japan

Takashi Nitta