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Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2020

Filed:

Dec. 22, 2017
Applicants:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc., Hachioji-shi, JP;

Inventors:

Masashi Murakita, Chiba, JP;

Takahiro Yamamoto, Tokyo, JP;

Assignees:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/045 (2006.01); A61B 1/05 (2006.01); G02B 21/36 (2006.01); G02B 23/24 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01); H04N 5/235 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/045 (2013.01); A61B 1/051 (2013.01); G02B 21/365 (2013.01); G02B 23/2484 (2013.01); H04N 5/2256 (2013.01); H04N 5/2351 (2013.01); H04N 2005/2255 (2013.01);
Abstract

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.


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