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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2018
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Jun Arai, Tokyo, JP;
Yohei Kuroda, Tokyo, JP;
Masaru Usui, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsuharu Fukushima, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/00149 (2013.01); A61B 1/0016 (2013.01); A61B 1/042 (2013.01);
Abstract
There is provided a medical holding apparatus including: a first actuator configured to cause a medical optical tool that guides light from a body cavity of a subject to a camera head during a surgical operation, to rotate about an optical axis of the medical optical tool and a rotation mechanism configured to support the camera head that acquires an image of the body cavity of the subject via the medical optical tool, the camera head being rotatable about the optical axis of the medical optical tool independently from the medical optical tool.