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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2018
Applicant:
Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Motoaki Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/00009 (2013.01); A61B 1/00013 (2013.01); A61B 1/00045 (2013.01); A61B 1/00188 (2013.01); A61B 1/00193 (2013.01);
Abstract
A medical observation device according to the present invention includes: an imaging unit that capture an image of a subject at a first angle of view; and an image generating unit that generates a display image signal by cutting, at a second angle of view smaller than the first angle of view, the image captured by the imaging unit at the first angle of view, and performing image processing thereon. This medical observation device enables the hand-eye coordination and definition to be maintained even if the field of view is changed.