Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Tomoyuki Hirayama

Masahito Yamane

Yuki Sugie

Hiroshi Ichiki

Yasuaki Takahashi

Kenta Yamaguchi

Daisuke Kikuchi

Yasuhiro Matsuda

Yukihiro Nakamura

Takara Kasai

Daisuke Nagao

Hisakazu Shiraki

Kenji Ikeda

Takeshi Miyai

Daisuke Tsuru

Masaya Takemoto

[Object] To make it possible to more stably perform communication. [Solution] There is provided a communication control device including: a communication status grasping unit configured to grasp a communication status of wireless communication of image information between an image shooting device and a surgical site image information acquiring unit on the basis of an operating room image showing a situation of an operating room, the image shooting device capturing an image of a surgical site of a patient, the surgical site image information acquiring unit acquiring information on a surgical site image captured by the image shooting device for display control of the surgical site image; and a communication method deciding unit configured to decide a communication method between the image shooting device and the surgical site image information acquiring unit on the basis of the grasped communication status.

Communication control device, communication control method, program, and communication control system

A medical image processing apparatus for allocating at least two medical imaging processes to a plurality of assignable processing resources is provided. The plurality of assignable processing resources is allocated by the medical image processing apparatus based on resource information of the plurality of assignable processing resources. The medical image processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to acquire medical image processing content, from medical equipment, to be processed according to the at least two medical imaging processes prior to display on a display device connected to a surgical operating room network. The circuitry is configured to acquire the resource information of the plurality of assignable processing resources, and allocate each of the at least two medical imaging processes to a different one of the plurality of assignable processing resources based on the resource information of the plurality processing resources and the medical image processing content.

Medical image processing apparatus, medical image processing method, and computing device

Provided is an image processing device including: an image processing unit that generates image data for output from a captured image of an inside of a body cavity of a patient photographed by an endoscope. The image processing unit generates the image data in a manner that, when a lens barrel of the endoscope is moved in an optical axis direction of an objective lens during photographing, a display range in the captured image that is a range expressed in a display image displayed on a display device does not change, during the movement and after the movement, from a display range before the movement.

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

[Problem] A surgical apparatus of the related art controls only the cropping position of a captured image, and thus only executes a limited range of image control in laparoscopic surgery. [Solution] A medical information processing apparatus including: an image control section that controls processing of a captured image from a camera; and an arm control section that controls a motion of an arm that supports the camera. One of the image control section and the arm control section executes control on a basis of control information from another control section.

Medical information processing apparatus, information processing method, and medical information processing system

There is provided a surgical system including a monitoring sensor configured to sense a characteristic of a surgical site within a body, in a sensing region of the surgical site which includes at least a part of a region outside a display field of an endoscope, and circuitry configured to detect an occurrence of a medical abnormality in the region outside the display field of the endoscope based on a result of the sensing by the monitoring sensor, and generate notification information regarding the detected medical abnormality.

Surgical system, information processing device, and method

There is provided a medical image processing device and an image processing method. The medical image processing device includes an acquisition unit that acquires application information indicating an application related to a display, and an image processing unit that performs image processing based on the application information to acquire an output image.

Medical image processing device and image processing method

The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus and method and an endoscopic system that permit reduction of uneven illumination distribution. An image processing apparatus includes a signal processing section that corrects uneven illumination of an image shot with a subject within a body of a patient to be operated on illuminated by a light source. The light source is arranged within the patient's body. The signal processing section corrects uneven illumination on the basis of a normally illuminated image and a low illuminated image. The normally illuminated image is shot with the subject within the body illuminated at a given illumination intensity. The low illuminated image is shot with the subject illuminated at a lower illumination intensity than the given illumination intensity.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method, and endoscopic system

The present technology relates to an image processing device, an image processing method, a surgery system, and a surgical thread capable of further improving visibility of the thread. The image processing device is provided with an image obtaining unit which obtains a first image imaged under an illumination condition in which the surgical thread fluoresces and a second image imaged under an illumination condition including at least visible light as images of an operative site using the surgical thread which fluoresces, and a synthesis unit which generates a synthetic image obtained by synthesizing an area of the surgical thread of the first image and the second image. The present technology is applicable to, for example, a surgery system and the like.

Image processing device, image processing method, surgery system, and surgical thread

There is provided an observation device that includes an image shooting unit composed of a first housing and for capturing an image of a surgical site of a patient; and a communication unit composed of a second housing disposed away from the first housing, and for wirelessly transmitting, to an external device, image information on the surgical site the image of which is captured by the image shooting unit.

Observation device and observation system for strengthening stability of communication

[Object] To make it possible to more stably perform communication. There is provided a communication control device including a communication status grasping unit configured to grasp a communication status of wireless communication of image information between an image shooting device and a surgical site image information acquiring unit on the basis of an operating room image showing a situation of an operating room, the image shooting device capturing an image of a surgical site of a patient, the surgical site image information acquiring unit acquiring information on a surgical site image captured by the image shooting device for display control of the surgical site image; and a communication method deciding unit configured to decide a communication method between the image shooting device and the surgical site image information acquiring unit on the basis of the grasped communication status.

A surgical control device that includes circuitry that changes an imaging viewpoint of a surgical imaging device in order to maintain a substantially constant distance between a focal point of an object and the surgical imaging device that images the object, based on a first instruction of a user and position information acquired by an acquisition unit implemented by circuitry configured to acquire position information indicating a position of the focal point of the object.

Surgical control device, control method, and imaging control system

The present disclosure relates to a control device, a medical device, and a medical device system that enable to provide a user who tries to connect the medical device to the control device with user support information including a result of compatibility determination between the devices. A control device according to one aspect of the present disclosure is provided with a connector joint to which a connector unit provided on a cable extending from a medical device is connected, a communication unit that performs radio communication with the connector unit by proximity radio communication, and a notification unit that notifies a user of user support information based on information from the medical device received by the communication unit. The present disclosure is applicable to an endoscopic surgical system, for example.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Tomoyuki Hirayama