Hitachi, Ltd.

Sony Corporation

Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Other

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Sony Group Corporation

Seiko Instruments Inc

Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited

Hitachi Maxell, Limited

Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.

Hitachi Maxwell, Ltd.

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.

Hitachi Displays, Ltd.

Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International

Takeshi Maeda

Harukazu Miyamoto

Atsushi Saito

Hisataka Sugiyama

Kazuo Shigematsu

Yoshito Tsunoda

Shigeru Nakamura

Toshimitsu Kaku

Tsuyoshi Toda

Hiroyuki Minemura

Hidehiko Kando

Tsutomu Furuhashi

Hiroshi Kurihara

Hiroshi Ide

Hirofumi Sukeda

Takahiro Kurokawa

Fumiyoshi Kirino

Takeshi Shimano

Naruhiko Kasai

Atsuhiro Higa

Akemi Hirotsune

Shinji Fujita

Hiroyuki Tsuchinaga

Manabu Shiozawa

Seiji Wada

Seiichi Mita

Makoto Miyamoto

Motoyasu Terao

Ikuo Yonezu

Shigeyuki Nishitani

Tatsumi Sakaguchi

Shinichi Arai

Fumio Kugiya

Toshiyuki Nohma

Osamu Ito

Mitsuhide Miyamoto

Tetsuya Nishida

Yasushi Miyauchi

Katsunori Yanagida

Toshimichi Shintani

Hiroyuki Nitta

Hideo Kawabe

Wasao Takasugi

Yukari Katayama

Hitoshi Watanabe

Koji Nishio

Kimio Tatsuno

Seiji Yonezawa

Takeshi Nakao

Yasuhide Ouchi

Takao Watanabe

Yasuyuki Kudo

Hiroyuki Mano

Hideki Saga

Wataru Kokubo

Masahiro Ojima

Yoshihisa Ooishi

Junko Ushiyama

Keikichi Andoo

Morishi Izumita

Masaru Ito

Yohei Kuroda

Hiroyuki Awano

Masatoshi Ohtake

Tatsuhiro Inuzuka

Masahiko Takahashi

Shigeki Taira

Tomonori Sekiguchi

Toshiaki Tanaka

Koichi Ito

Takuro Noda

Hiroki Yamamoto

Shigemi Maeda

Akira Arimoto

Makoto Kimura

Yoshio Suzuki

Takeshi Kato

Yoshitaka Bito

Norio Ohta

Tetsu Watanabe

Osamu Kawamae

Junichi Hirakata

Yoshitada Oshida

Hiromichi Fujisawa

Keiji Kataoka

Yoshihiro Kato

Yoshihisa Kamo

Naoki Satoh

Tetsuya Fushimi

Shunichi Torii

Naoya Nakanishi

Toshiaki Tsuyoshi

Yoshinori Kida

Takashi Takeuchi

Yukio Fukui

Satoshi Sumi

Masaaki Kurebayashi

Jun Arai

Hirohisa Sano

Ryouhei Yasuda

Efficiency of a surgery-related service can be further improved. An information processing system according to an embodiment includes a surgery information acquisition unit that acquires information regarding a surgery, and a display control unit that displays a surgery process area indicating an entire process of the surgery and a progress of the entire process, and a work process area indicating a work content of a part of the entire process and a progress of the work content. The display control unit calculates at least one of the progress of the entire process and the progress of the work content according to information regarding a surgery different from the surgery.

Information processing system, and information processing method and program

A medical safety control apparatus that includes processing circuitry that obtains a surgical instrument-biological tissue distance, determine whether the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is greater than a predetermined first restricted distance, in response to determining that the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is not greater than the predetermined first restricted distance, issues an instruction for stopping a motion of an arm of a support arm apparatus that supports the surgical instrument, in response to determining that the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is greater than the predetermined first restricted distance, determines whether the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is greater than a predetermined second restricted distance, and in response to determining that the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is not greater than the predetermined second restricted distance, issues a first instruction for restricting a motion speed of the arm.

Medical safety control apparatus, medical safety control method, and medical support system

[Problem] To prevent sight of an observation target from being lost from a visual field of a monitor. [Solution] A surgical arm system includes: an articulated arm in which a plurality of joints is rotatably connected by a plurality of links and which is capable of supporting an oblique-viewing endoscope at a tip; and a control system which controls the articulated arm to change a position and a posture of the oblique-viewing endoscope. The control system controls at least one of a rotation speed and a movement speed of the oblique-viewing endoscope in a visual field imaged through the oblique-viewing endoscope based on a position of the observation target in the visual field.

Surgical arm system and surgical arm control system

The present technology relates to a control device, a control method, and a surgical system that enable an operator to implement operation without a burden. A control unit controls a plurality of patterns of operations of a surgical instrument, and an acquisition unit obtains motion information indicating a motion of a user. Furthermore, the control unit controls the operations of the respective patterns corresponding to the motion information obtained by the acquisition unit in parallel using only a single operation performed by the user as a trigger. The present technology can be applied to a control device of a surgical system.

Control device, control method, and surgical system

A medical observation system includes a multi-link structure in which a plurality of links is mutually coupled by joint parts, a medical observation apparatus attached on the multi-link structure, a control part configured to control the multi-link structure or the medical observation apparatus, and a user interface part by which a user inputs an instruction to change a visual field of the medical observation apparatus. When a user instructs to move a visual field of the medical observation apparatus vertically or horizontally, to rotate an oblique-viewing endoscope, or to change a magnification of the visual field via the user interface part, the control part controls the multi-link structure or the medical observation apparatus.

Medical observation system, apparatus for controlling the same, and method for controlling the same

A surgical imaging system including a surgical imaging device including identification information; a holding arm that holds and controls a position of the imaging device; a user interface configured to provide non-contact operation of the holding arm; and processing circuitry configured to control the holding arm according to the identification information and an output of the user interface.

Surgical imaging system, image processing apparatus for surgery, and method for controlling an imaging procedure

The present invention relates to a surgical control apparatus, a surgical control method, and a program that can prevent erroneous operations of surgical apparatuses when the surgical apparatuses are controlled with contactless inputs. A state estimation block () estimates a state of an operator recognized by a recognition block () on the basis of at least one type of contactless input sent from the operator. In accordance with the state estimated by the state estimation block (), a command block () restricts a control operation of a surgical camera (), a camera arm (), or an image processing block () based on at least one type of contactless input sent from the operator recognized by the recognition block (). The present invention is applicable to a surgical system and the like that have a surgical camera (), a camera arm (), an action recognition camera (), a display (), a control apparatus (), a pair of glasses (), a microphone (), a marker, a foot switch (), etc., thereby enabling the treatment realized by referencing images.

Surgical control apparatus, surgical control method, and program

To provide a control device, control method, and surgical system that can further improve safety. Provided is the control device including: a driving control unit () configured to control driving of an arm unit () that supports a medical instrument (); a region setting unit () configured to set an intrusion appropriateness region for which appropriateness of intrusion of the medical instrument or the arm unit is determined in a space on a basis of a peripheral image showing a peripheral state of the medical instrument or the arm unit; an intrusion determination unit () configured to determine presence/absence of intrusion of the medical instrument or the arm unit into the intrusion appropriateness region when the driving control unit controls driving of the arm unit in accordance with a non-contact operation by a user with respect to the arm unit; and an action instruction unit () configured to cause an intrusion hindering action for hindering intrusion of the medical instrument or the arm unit into the intrusion appropriateness region to be executed in accordance with a determination result of the intrusion determination unit.

There is provided an information processing device for rotating an object relative to a viewpoint position of a user in further accordance with the user's desire, the information processing device including: a rotation center determination unit that determines a center of rotation based on a position of an object in a three-dimensional space and an instruction direction of a user in the three-dimensional space; and a rotation control unit that rotates the object relative to a viewpoint position of the user on the basis of the center of rotation.

Information processing device, information processing method, and program

The present technology relates to an input control device, an input control method, and an operation system, which enable achievement of a highly flexible input operation without a burden on a user. A target point determination unit determines a target point to be a display reference in an operative field image in a display, on the basis of a user's line-of-sight position with respect to the operative field image displayed in the display and of a characteristic point detected in the operative field image. The present technology can be applied to an input device for an operation system.

Input control device, input control method, and operation system

A pointing device includes a casing, a tactile sense presentation section, and a sensor section. The sensor section detects an operation for the casing and outputs an operation signal for controlling a movement of a pointer on a screen. The control apparatus includes an area setting section and a signal generation section. The area setting section sets a first area that belongs to an inside of a display area of an object on the screen, a second area that belongs to an outside of the display area of the object, and a third area that belongs to a boundary portion between the first area and the second area. The signal generation section calculates a position of the pointer based on the operation signal to generate, when the pointer is located in the first area, a control signal by which the tactile sense presentation section is driven in a first drive mode and generates, when the pointer is located in the third area, a control signal by which the tactile sense presentation section is driven in a second drive mode.

Pointing system, pointing device, and pointing control method

[Object] To provide a pointing system capable of presenting an intuitive operational feeling to a user. [Solving Means] A pointing device includes a casing, a tactile sense presentation section, and a sensor section. The sensor section detects an operation for the casing and outputs an operation signal for controlling a movement of a pointer on a screen. The control apparatus includes an area setting section and a signal generation section. The area setting section sets a first area that belongs to an inside of a display area of an object on the screen, a second area that belongs to an outside of the display area of the object, and a third area that belongs to a boundary portion between the first area and the second area. The signal generation section calculates a position of the pointer based on the operation signal to generate, when the pointer is located in the first area, a control signal by which the tactile sense presentation section is driven in a first drive mode and generates, when the pointer is located in the third area, a control signal by which the tactile sense presentation section is driven in a second drive mode.

This specification discloses an excellent communication device of a field coupling type that increases field coupling efficiency between electrodes and realizes a small-sized device. This specification also discloses a communication system and an electrode. A communication deviceincludes: a first resonant circuitconnected in series to an electrode unitformed with two conductor plates; and a second resonant circuitconnected in parallel to the electrode unitand the first resonant circuit, which are connected in series. The constant of a resonant circuit is determined so that the voltage Vto be applied to the electrode unitbecomes higher than the voltage Vto be applied to the electrode unitand the first resonant circuitconnected in series. In this manner, a field coupling electrode that has a very high coupling strength at a target frequency is obtained.

Field coupling electrode, communication device, and communication system

A mobile terminal apparatus including a casing, a plurality of vibrators, and a controller. The plurality of vibrators are provided inside the casing. The controller is configured to judge an orientation from a position of the casing to a target position and cause a vibration for presenting the orientation in the casing by driving at least one of the plurality of vibrators based on a result of the judgment.

Mobile terminal apparatus and orientation presentment method

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Kokubunji, Japan

Takeshi Maeda