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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2022
Applicant:
Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Yohei Kuroda, Tokyo, JP;
Shinji Katsuki, Tokyo, JP;
Kei Tomatsu, Tokyo, JP;
Yugo Katsuki, Tokyo, JP;
Daisuke Nagao, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/313 (2006.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 25/47 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/3132 (2013.01); A61B 1/00179 (2013.01); H04N 25/47 (2023.01);
Abstract
There is provided a medical observation device that includes an imaging unit that can image an environment inside an abdominal cavity of a living body, and the imaging unit includes a plurality of first pixels that are aligned in a matrix, and an event detection unit that detects a luminance change amount of light incident on each of the plurality of first pixels exceeds a predetermined threshold.