Patents Assigned to SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC.
  • Patent number: 10849484
    Abstract: There is provided a wearable medical observation apparatus used by being worn on a head of a user, including: a first observation section having a configuration enabling a first observation of an observation target through an optical system including at least an objective lens; a second observation section having a configuration enabling a second observation of an observation target by a first medical observation image in which the observation target is imaged by a first imaging device; and a control section configured to control an observation state of the observation target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Keiji Shioda
  • Patent number: 10849485
    Abstract: An endoscope device includes: an endoscope configured to retrieve a subject image in a subject from a tip end, and output the subject image from an eyepiece unit; and a camera head including a mounting unit detachably connected to the eyepiece unit, and configured to pick up the subject image. The eyepiece unit and the mounting unit are connected with each other so as to be able to relatively rotate the endoscope and the camera head around an insertion axis. The eyepiece unit includes an endoscope side terminal. The mounting unit includes a head side terminal that feeds power to the endoscope from the camera head. One of the endoscope side terminal and the head side terminal includes at least three terminals disposed on a virtual circle around the insertion axis, and the other includes at least two terminals disposed on the virtual circle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Kohtaro Amano, Kiyotaka Kanno
  • Patent number: 10842356
    Abstract: A plug as an optical connector is configured to connect mechanically and optically with a receptacle, wherein part of an optical fibre for transmitting an optical signal is disposed internally. The plug includes a tubular plug-side first outer wall into which the optical fibre is inserted, configured to cover an optical signal-emitting end of the optical fibre. An end side of the plug-side first outer wall to be connected to the receptacle is sealed by a plug-side cover member translucent to an optical signal. In the optical connector intrusion of liquid and foreign substances can be suppressed, and reliability of optical communication can be ensured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Masahiro Hagihara, Kei Tomatsu, Kenji Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 10835109
    Abstract: An endoscope system includes: an imaging device detachably connected to an eyepiece unit of an endoscope inserted into a subject, the endoscope taking a subject image inside the subject from a distal end thereof, and the imaging device being configured to capture the subject image taken by the endoscope; a detection area setting unit configured to set a detection area in the captured image captured by the imaging device; a detection processing unit configured to execute, based on an image in the detection area in the captured image, a detection process for calculating an evaluation value of the image; and a subject image determining unit configured to determine a size of the subject image in the captured image, wherein the detection area setting unit changes an area of the entire detection area based on a determination result of the subject image determining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Murase, Takahiro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10835342
    Abstract: There is provided a medical observation apparatus including: a control section configured to control, on a basis of a predetermined operation related to a movement of an imaging field of view, the movement of the imaging field of view in an imaging device supported by an arm including a plurality of links joined to each other by joint sections. The control section controls the movement of the imaging field of view by performing a cropping range control that crops an imaging range of the imaging device on the basis of the predetermined operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Hiroki Saijo
  • Patent number: 10823944
    Abstract: By using a surgical microscope device, it becomes possible to continue surgery more reliably, even in the case in which the picture of the operating site is no longer displayed normally. Provided is a surgical microscope device including: a microscope unit (110) that images an observation target, and outputs a picture signal; a support unit (120) that supports the microscope unit, and is configured as a balance arm; and an auxiliary observation device (30) that is attachable to the microscope unit or the support unit. A manually operated manual brake mechanism (40) is provided with respect to at least one of a plurality of rotation axis units constituting the support unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignees: SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC., SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeru Tamura, Kenji Hirose, Yoshiyuki Kamata, Daisuke Iseki
  • Publication number: 20200343621
    Abstract: A substrate for a medical device, a portion of which is brought into contact with or inserted into a subject. The substrate includes a patient circuit conductively connected to the portion that is configured to be brought into contact with or inserted into the subject, and a ground-side circuit configured to perform at least one of transmission of a signal, reception of a signal, and supply of electric power on the patient circuit. The ground-side circuit is grounded by a protective ground to ensure safety of a manipulator of the medical device. The substrate also includes an insulating layer between the patient circuit and the ground-side circuit providing insulation between the patient circuit and the ground-side circuit, and an isolated circuit provided apart from the patient circuit and the ground-side circuit on the insulating layer and having a different reference potential from the patient circuit and the ground-side circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Kiyotaka KANNO
  • Publication number: 20200329949
    Abstract: A medical observation apparatus includes: a display unit that displays thereon an observation image corresponding to a result of examination on a subject; a first camera that performs imaging of plural persons surrounding the subject, and outputs a surrounding image; a selecting unit that selects, based on the surrounding image, an indicator from the plural persons; a line of sight detecting unit that detects a line of sight of the indicator; and a display control unit that causes the display unit to display thereon a superimposed image having a pointer superimposed on the observation image, the pointer being at a position according to a destination of the line of sight of the indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Sumihiro UCHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20200315425
    Abstract: An image processing device for an endoscope outputs a video signal to an image display part that displays an observation image based on the video signal. The image display part is configured such that a first side of a display screen that displays the observation image is shorter than a second side intersecting with the first side, and is configured to be set in both a first setting state in which the first side is along a vertical direction and a second setting state in which the second side is along the vertical direction. The image processing device includes: a setting state recognition part configured to recognize the setting state; and a video signal generation part configured to generate the video signal such that the subject image in the observation image has an orientation corresponding to the setting state of the image display part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro HAGIHARA, Morinao FUKUOKA, Yuichi YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20200306000
    Abstract: There is provided a medical control apparatus including an illumination control unit that performs, based on a detection result of brightness relating to imaging, a first control of controlling brightness of a light source of an observation device for observing an observation target and a second control of controlling brightness of an illumination apparatus that irradiates the observation target with illumination light from an outside of the observation device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro OKABE, Mitsuaki SHIRAGA, Tomonori ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20200311917
    Abstract: A medical image processing device includes circuitry configured to: analyze a blood flow flowing in an observation object based on a medical observation image obtained by capturing an image of the observation object; and generate a difference result between a simulation result of a blood flow flowing in a 3D model acquired in advance for the observation object and an analysis result of a blood flow flowing in the observation object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Kazunori SEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20200310078
    Abstract: A medical observation apparatus includes: an optical structure including at least one lens; an image sensor configured to capture an image formed by the optical structure; a temperature sensor configured to detect an environmental temperature of the optical structure; and circuitry configured to generate temperature information based on a detection result of the temperature sensor, and calculate a second focal length obtained by correcting a first focal length based on the temperature information and the first focal length calculated based on a lens position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Masataka KADO
  • Publication number: 20200312464
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a medical information processing apparatus that comprises: a selection unit that selects, from among candidate data including surgery data acquired during surgery, target data corresponding to selection conditions that include a condition relating to a patient attribute, a condition relating to a surgical-procedure type, and a condition relating to a disease type; an extraction unit that detects a feature from the selected target data and extracts, from the target data, feature data corresponding to the detected feature; and an editing processing unit that edits the extracted feature data, wherein the extraction unit extracts at least a medical image as the feature data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Mitsuaki SHIRAGA
  • Publication number: 20200306003
    Abstract: Provided is a medical control apparatus including an imaging control unit that adjusts an inward angle which is an angle formed by an imaging direction in a first imaging device that captures a medical image for the right eye and an imaging direction in a second imaging device that captures a medical image for the left eye to the inward angle corresponding to a display device that displays the medical image for the right eye and the medical image for the left eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Shinji KATSUKI, Motoaki KOBAYASHI, Tomonori ISHIKAWA, Kazunori SEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20200306002
    Abstract: A medical observation control device includes: a memory configured to store a parameter for a first imaging condition including a position of an imager at a time of capturing a first medical image; and circuitry configured to restore the parameter for the first imaging condition as a second imaging condition for capturing a second medical image, control the imager and a support configured to support the imager so as to capture an image of an observation object under the second imaging condition, compare the first medical image with the second medical image, and correct brightness of at least one of brightness of the first medical image and brightness of the second medical image based on a comparison result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki KAMATA
  • Publication number: 20200305684
    Abstract: A charging device includes: a holder detachably connected to a connector of a camera head to which an endoscope is detachably connected; and a power supplier configured to supply power to a battery of the camera head held by the holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Masahiro HAGIHARA
  • Publication number: 20200304777
    Abstract: A display device for observing a three-dimensional image or a two-dimensional image through stereoscopic glasses includes: a display panel configured to display a three-dimensional image based on a three-dimensional image signal or a two-dimensional image based on a two-dimensional image signal; circuitry configured to determine whether or not an input image signal is the three-dimensional image signal; change a brightness of an image to be displayed on the display panel to a brightness suitable for the two-dimensional image when it is determined that the input image signal is not the three-dimensional image signal; and control the display panel to display an image based on the image signal with the changed brightness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Takaaki YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20200297436
    Abstract: A medical holding apparatus includes: a support including a plurality of arms, and a plurality of joints configured to connect the plurality of arms, the support being configured to support an imaging unit at a distal end thereof; a load applying mechanism arranged in at least one of the joints and configured to apply a resistance load against operation of the at least one of the joints to the support; and a processor comprising hardware, the processor being configured to: set torque to be applied by the load applying mechanism based on an operating state of the imaging unit; and apply a load corresponding to the set torque to the load applying mechanism when a rotation inhibit state of each of the arms of the support is released.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Shigeru TAMURA
  • Publication number: 20200297199
    Abstract: A medical control device includes: a light source controller configured to modulate pulsed light by changing a crest value of a pulsed current and emit the pulsed light a plurality of times from the light source in one frame; an imaging controller configured to cause an image sensor to sequentially generate a pixel signal at a specific frame rate; and an image processor configured to use a pixel signal obtained by multiplying the pixel signal for specific one frame from each pixel of a specific horizontal line by a ratio of an amount of exposure of specific pulsed light made in the specific one frame to a total exposure amount obtained by adding each exposure amount of all of the pulsed lights exposing the specific horizontal line within the specific one frame including an illumination period of the specific pulsed light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Ryohei KAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20200305259
    Abstract: A light source device includes: light sources; a detector configured to detect light amounts; and a processor configured to: control the light sources to emit light beams by applying a pulse current with a pulse width larger than a predetermined pulse width to the light sources before the processor makes a shift to a strobe observation mode; set a pulse current value at which a ratio of the light amounts of the light beams emitted by the plurality of light sources becomes a predetermined ratio for the plurality of light sources based on a detection result detected by the detector under a state where the pulse current with the pulse width larger than the predetermined pulse width is applied to the plurality of light sources; and make the shift to the strobe observation mode while maintaining the pulse current value for realizing the predetermined ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Koji KOJIMA