Abstract: This invention provides a simple projector system that can be operated by a user who is not an expert of image processing technology. The projector system comprises a projector (1), a personal computer (2), a mouse (3), and a calibration board (4). A checker flag pattern is added to the calibration board (4), and an intersection point serves as a marker. A cursor, which is projected from the projector (1) onto the calibration board (4), is used as an intuitive input interface. An operator, while seeing the cursor, operates the mouse (3), thereby placing the cursor onto the calibration marker. In this state, the operator clicks the mouse (3), thereby selecting the calibration marker. The operator then acquires the corresponding projection image coordinates on the basis of the selection instruction.

Abstract: This invention provides a simple projector system that can be operated by a user who is not an expert of image processing technology. The projector system comprises a projector (1), a personal computer (2), a mouse (3), and a calibration board (4). A checker flag pattern is added to the calibration board (4), and an intersection point serves as a marker. A cursor, which is projected from the projector (1) onto the calibration board (4), is used as an intuitive input interface. An operator, while seeing the cursor, operates the mouse (3), thereby placing the cursor onto the calibration marker. In this state, the operator clicks the mouse (3), thereby selecting the calibration marker. The operator then acquires the corresponding projection image coordinates on the basis of the selection instruction.

Abstract: A technique using a trocar including a retractable camera in which fogging and organic matters are removed to clean a lens of the camera. The trocar includes a pipe portion and a head portion. The pipe portion includes a side opening portion. According to rotation of a changing over mechanism and a shaft, the retractable camera rotates such that the camera is changeable between a stored position and a deployed position by passing through the side opening portion. A wiper blade is fixed to an end face of the side opening portion on a tip side of the trocar. When the retractable camera rotates, a tip of the wiper blade contacts a camera lens in a deformable manner.

Abstract: Problem: To provide a trocar equipped with a retractable camera, with which the security is enhanced as compared with the related art. Means for Solution: An opening portion 13 is provided at a position of a pipe portion 11. The position of opening portion 13 is reliably within the body of the patient. A shaft 14 is arranged along the interior of the trocar, along an edge of the opening portion 13. Several bearings 15 are fixed to the inter wall of the pipe portion 11, with the shaft 14 being rotatably mounted in the bearings 15. The end portion of the shaft 14 extends to the exterior of the trocar, outside the body of the patient. A selection lever 16 is provided at the outer end portion of the shaft 14. The selection lever 16 can be changed over between a stored position and a deployed position, and can be fixed in each of these positions. A camera 17 is rigidly and integrally attached to the shaft 14 at a position that corresponds to the opening portion 13.

Abstract: Problem To provide a surgery assistance system that performs measurement of shapes within the abdominal cavity at high accuracy in three dimensions, and a trocar for use in such a surgery assistance system. Means for Solution A surgery assistance system 101 includes forceps trocars 1a and 1b having retractable cameras 17a and 17b and marks 19a and 19b, a laparoscope trocar 3, forceps 4a and 4b, a laparoscope 5 having a mark 19d, an image processing device 6 that inputs the images obtained from the retractable cameras 17a and 17b and the image obtained from the laparoscope 5 and combines these images to create a three dimensional image, a three dimensional monitor 7 that outputs the three dimensional image created by the image processing device 6, and an optical tracking sensor 9. The positional relationships of the marks 19 and the corresponding cameras 17 are fixed.