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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2022
Filed:
May. 30, 2018
Eizo Corporation, Ishikawa, JP;
Takuya Katayama, Hyogo, JP;
Nobuaki Sugii, Hyogo, JP;
EIZO Corporation, Ishikawa, JP;
Abstract
A surgical instrument detection system is provided that can determine the kinds of surgical instruments without special processing, such as application of an optically readable symbol, to the surgical instruments. A surgical instrument detection systemincludes: an image input sectionto input an image taken by a camera; an object extraction sectionto clip an object image of a small steel article from the input image; a determination sectionto input the object image to a learned classification modeland determine a kind of the small steel article based on features included in the object image; and an output image generation sectionto generate an image representing the result of determination by the determination section and output such image to a monitor