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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2017
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Jun Arai, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasuhisa Kamikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Wataru Kokubo, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuhiro Matsuda, Tokyo, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A medical support system that includes a support arm including one or more active joints having an actuator, and one or more passive coupling mechanisms including a passive joint and a telescopic extension arm, the passive joint having no actuator; and processing circuitry configured to obtain information indicating a change due to movement of the one or more passive coupling mechanisms, and control the actuator of each of the one or more active joints based on the obtained information indicating the change, and the telescopic extension arm is positioned between (1) an active joint of the one or more active joints on a first side of the telescopic extension arm, and (2) the passive joint on a second side of the telescopic extension arm, the first side being closer to an proximal end of the support arm than a distal end of the support arm.