Patents by Inventor Junichiro Enoki

Junichiro Enoki has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12144547
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a control device and method that can focus on a desired position of a subject, and a surgical microscope system. The control device includes: an initial in-focus position detection unit configured to detect a focus position when focusing on a predetermined subject included in an observation image of an eye of a patient that is a surgical operation target as an initial in-focus position; and a calculation unit configured to determine an offset value indicating a distance between a target eye organ that is inside a corneal endothelium of the eye and the initial in-focus position on the basis of information regarding structure of an eyeball, and to calculate an in-focus position that is a focus position focused on the target eye organ on the basis of the offset value and the initial in-focus position. The present technology is applicable to the surgical microscope system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshio Soma, Tomoyuki Ootsuki, Junichiro Enoki, Tatsumi Sakaguchi
  • Patent number: 12114833
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a medical image processing system including a light source that irradiates an observation target with light; an image capturing control unit that controls capturing of an image of the observation target irradiated with the light and an endoscope including a scope having a tubular shape and made from a rigid or flexible material, a camera head including an imaging element that captures an image, and an optical element insertion unit provided between the scope and the camera head. Further, the optical element insertion unit includes two or more optical elements having the effect of extending the depth of field, and at least one of the optical elements is movable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Kashima, Takeshi Miyai, Junichiro Enoki
  • Publication number: 20240302896
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus (13) according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: an image input unit (13b) that receives an operative field image for an eye of a patient; an eyeball tracking unit (13e) that tracks an eyeball in the operative field image; and a display image generation unit (13f) that sets a plurality of regions having different display modes for the operative field image and generates a display image in which a boundary of the plurality of regions indicate at least one of a specific position, a specific direction, and a specific size for the eye, in which the display image generation unit (13f) changes a display mode of any or all of the plurality of regions on the basis of a tracking result of the eyeball, and changes at least one of a position, a direction, and a size of the boundary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Junichiro ENOKI, Izumu HOSOI, Yuki SUGIE, Tomoyuki OOTSUKI, Koji KASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20240281973
    Abstract: There are provided an information processing program, an information processing device, an information processing method, and a microscope system capable of more efficiently performing parameter adjustment. The information processing program is an information processing program for causing a computer to execute an acquisition step of acquiring a first image obtained by imaging a specimen tissue, an analysis processing step of performing analysis processing on the first image using a predetermined parameter, and a determination step of determining whether to allow the analysis processing to be performed with the predetermined parameter on the basis of first characteristic information of a tissue form present in the first image and second characteristic information of a tissue form corresponding to the predetermined parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: RYOTA YAMADA, JUNICHIRO ENOKI
  • Publication number: 20240169534
    Abstract: Information regarding a tissue present at a boundary of a region to be detected of the tissue is detected with high accuracy. A medical image analysis device of the presents disclosure includes a region setting unit configured to set, in a processing target image obtained by imaging a biological tissue, a first region and a second region partially overlapping the first region, and a specifying unit configured to specify a first tissue region and a second tissue region, the first tissue region being a region of a tissue included in the first region, the second tissue region being a region of a tissue included in the second region. The specifying unit includes an overlap processing unit configured to process the first tissue region and the second tissue region at least partially overlapping the first tissue region to set a third tissue region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventor: JUNICHIRO ENOKI
  • Publication number: 20240161298
    Abstract: The present invention improves estimation accuracy. An information processing system includes: an acquisition unit (102) configured to acquire adjustment information based on a feature value of learning data used for generation of a learned model that estimates a health condition of a patient or a subject; a processing unit (103) configured to perform processing on a biological sample to be judged on the basis of the adjustment information; and an estimation unit (104) configured to estimate a diagnosis result by inputting measurement data acquired by the processing to the learned model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: SHIORI SASADA, KAZUKI AISAKA, KENJI YAMANE, JUNICHIRO ENOKI, YOSHIYUKI KOBAYASHI, MASATO ISHII, KENJI SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20240074821
    Abstract: Provided an image processing device (13) including an image input unit (13b) that receives an operative field image; a display image generation unit (13f) that superimposes a first guide guiding a user to a motion of a surgery start instruction on the operative field image to generate a display image; and a processing start unit (13g) that starts surgery start-time processing when having detected the surgery start instruction within the first guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Koji KASHIMA, Junichiro ENOKI, Tomoyuki OOTSUKI, Izumu HOSOI
  • Publication number: 20240045497
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus (13) according to one form of the present disclosure includes: an image input unit (13b) that receives an operative field image for an eye of a patient; an eyeball tracking unit (13e) that tracks an eyeball in the operative field image; and a display image generation unit (13f) that sets a plurality of regions having different display modes for the operative field image and generates a display image in which an annular or radial boundary in the plurality of regions indicates a specific position or a specific size with respect to the eye. The display image generation unit (13f) changes a position or a size of the boundary on the basis of a tracking result of the eyeball and generates the display image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Junichiro ENOKI, Izumu HOSOI, Yuki SUGIE, Tomoyuki OOTSUKI, Koji KASHIMA, Hiroshi USHIRODA, Koji FUKAYA
  • Publication number: 20240033035
    Abstract: An image processing device (13) according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: an image input unit (13a) that receives a surgical field image with respect to a patient's eye; an eyeball tracking unit (13b) as an example of a part detection unit that detects a specific part of the eye in the surgical field image; and a display image generation unit (13c) that generates a display image including a first position indicator indicating a position a predetermined distance away in a specific direction from the specific part detected by the eyeball tracking unit (13b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki OOTSUKI, Junichiro ENOKI, Hiroshi USHIRODA, Koji FUKAYA, Yuki SUGIE, Koji KASHIMA, Izumu HOSOI
  • Patent number: 11850000
    Abstract: The stereoscopic effect of an image presented in accordance with an additional optical system is compensated for. There is provided an ophthalmic surgery microscope system including: a surgical microscope that observes an inside of an eye from a pupil, and magnifies and presents a real image; an additional optical system selectively arranged between the surgical microscope and the pupil; an imaging unit that acquires the real image presented by the surgical microscope as an image; a presentation unit that stereoscopically presents the image; and a control unit that changes a vertical magnification control value for adjusting a vertical magnification of the real image in accordance with a detection result of the additional optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichiro Enoki, Yoshio Soma, Tomoyuki Ootsuki
  • Publication number: 20230230398
    Abstract: An image processing device 100 includes, in a case where designation of a plurality of partial regions corresponding to a cell morphology is received, the plurality of partial regions being extracted from a pathological image, a generation unit 154 that generates auxiliary information indicating information about a feature amount effective when a plurality of partial regions is classified or extracted with respect to a plurality of feature amounts calculated from the image; and in a case where setting information about an adjustment item according to the auxiliary information is received, an image processing unit 155 that performs an image process on the image using the setting information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: YOHEI KOBAYASHI, TAKESHI KUNIHIRO, JUNICHIRO ENOKI, KENJI YAMANE, YUTAKA HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20230186658
    Abstract: A generation device includes: a generation section that, on the basis of feature values of partial regions set in an image regarding pathology, generates distribution information in which distributions of the partial regions on a feature space specified by feature values included in the partial regions are visibly arranged in the feature space while being associated with the partial regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: JUNICHIRO ENOKI, KENJI YAMANE
  • Publication number: 20230134492
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an assessment unit and a setting unit. The assessment unit performs weighting on an examination item relating to an examination with an ophthalmic microscope on the basis of medical information relating to a patient. The setting unit sets an operation relating to the examination with the ophthalmic microscope on the basis of the weighting of the examination item. Accordingly, the usability of the ophthalmic microscope can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: TOMOYUKI OOTSUKI, JUNICHIRO ENOKI, YOSHIO SOMA, MOTOAKI KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11529229
    Abstract: To provide an intraocular lens to which a mark for assisting more accurate fixation in an eye has been applied. Provided is an intraocular lens including an optical part having a mark that is detectable under illumination of a specific wavelength range outside a wavelength range of visible light, and a support part that supports the optical part, in which the mark is indicated by a geometric pattern that allows for identification of an optical center position of the optical part and information regarding posture of the optical part in an eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshio Soma, Tomoyuki Ootsuki, Junichiro Enoki
  • Publication number: 20220354583
    Abstract: In order to provide a surgical microscope system (100), a control apparatus (120), and a control method that enable position and orientation of a lens tube to be adjusted without requiring a large-scale system, the surgical microscope system includes an arm (112), a surgical microscope (113), a target value setting unit (122), an estimation unit (123), and a control unit (125), the arm includes a rotatable joint (118), the surgical microscope includes a microscope optical system (114) and a camera (115) that captures an operative field image that is a microscope magnification image of an operative field by the microscope optical system, the surgical microscope being supported by the arm, the target value setting unit sets target values of position and orientation of the surgical microscope, the estimation unit estimates the position and orientation of the surgical microscope on the basis of the operative field image and generates estimated values, and the control unit is configured to control a rotation of th
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: JUNICHIRO ENOKI, YOSHIO SOMA
  • Publication number: 20220283073
    Abstract: Data increased by multicoloring is analyzed. An information processing device according to an embodiment includes: a dimensional compression unit (214) that executes dimensional compression on each of a plurality of pieces of spectral data including a fluorescent component emitted from each of a plurality of particles labeled with one or more fluorescent dyes; an initial value determination unit (214) that determines an initial value for each of a plurality of nodes on the basis of a result of the dimensional compression; and a clustering unit (214) that executes clustering on the plurality of pieces of spectral data using the initial value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Yamane, Junichiro Enoki
  • Publication number: 20220175245
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an eye examination attachment, a control device, and an ophthalmic microscope system, by which an image of an eye to be examined that is suitable for observation can be provided. [Solving Means] An eye examination attachment according to the present technology includes a joining unit, a front optical system, and a communication unit. The joining unit is capable of being joined to an ophthalmic microscope. The front optical system includes a front lens capable of being placed in front of an eye to be examined. The communication unit sends information regarding the front optical system to an external device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: YOSHIO SOMA, TOMOYUKI OOTSUKI, JUNICHIRO ENOKI
  • Publication number: 20220151466
    Abstract: An EDOF signal processing unit performs EDOF signal processing as restoration processing on a special light image acquired by imaging an observation target irradiated with special light, and a setting unit sets a restoration degree of the EDOF signal processing for the EDOF signal processing unit. Then, a parameter for the restoration degree in the EDOF signal processing on the special light image is set so as to make the restoration degree in the EDOF signal processing on the special light image lower than a restoration degree in EDOF signal processing as restoration processing on a normal light image acquired by imaging the observation target irradiated with normal light. The present technology may be applied to, for example, a medical image processing system that performs special light observation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Koji KASHIMA, Takeshi MIYAI, Junichiro ENOKI
  • Publication number: 20220148165
    Abstract: A surgical microscope system according to an embodiment of the present technology a microscope optical system, an imaging device, and an image processing device. The imaging device captures an image of a visual field range including an eye to be treated through the microscope optical system. The image processing device magnifies a first region in an image including the eye to be treated based on the image captured by the imaging device and reduces a second region other than the first region in the image to be capable of being displayed in a region other than a magnified region that is the first region magnified in the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: TOMOYUKI OOTSUKI, YOSHIO SOMA, JUNICHIRO ENOKI
  • Publication number: 20220142458
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an optical system, an endoscope, and a medical image processing system capable of adjusting an effect of extending a depth of field. A medical image processing system includes: a light source that irradiates an observation target with light; an image capturing control unit that controls capturing of an image of the observation target irradiated with the light; and an endoscope including a scope having a tubular shape and made from a rigid or flexible material, a camera head including an imaging element that captures an image, and an optical element insertion unit provided between the scope and the camera head. Further, the optical element insertion unit includes two or more optical elements having the effect of extending the depth of field, and at least one of the optical elements is movable. The present technology is applicable to, for example, a medical image processing system including an EDOF optical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: KOJI KASHIMA, TAKESHI MIYAI, JUNICHIRO ENOKI