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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 16, 2022
Canon U.s.a., Inc., Melville, NY (US);
The Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Fumitaro Masaki, Cambridge, MA (US);
Franklin King, Allston, MA (US);
Takahisa Kato, Brookline, MA (US);
Brian Ninni, Woburn, MA (US);
HuaLei Shelley Zhang, Brookline, MA (US);
Nobuhiko Hata, Newton, MA (US);
Canon U.S.A., Inc., Melville, NY (US);
The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for correction of a direction to which a tool channel or a camera moves or is bent in a case where a displayed image is rotated. The apparatus includes at least one memory and at least one processor that executes instructions stored in the memory to receive a directional command of a capturing direction of a camera, move the capturing direction of the camera according to the received directional command, detect a rotation amount of a captured image displayed on a monitor, wherein the captured image is captured by the camera, and correct, based on the detected rotation amount, directional information corresponding to a particular directional command or directional coordinate for moving the camera, wherein the directional information is used for moving the capturing direction of the camera.