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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2017
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Tomoyuki Hirayama, Kanagawa, JP;
Daisuke Kikuchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuki Sugie, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasuhiro Matsuda, Tokyo, JP;
Daisuke Nagao, Kanagawa, JP;
Takara Kasai, Kanagawa, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
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.