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).
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Publication number: 20260104343Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2025Publication date: April 16, 2026Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Kenji Yamane, Junichiro Enoki
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Patent number: 12560999Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 16, 2021Date of Patent: February 24, 2026Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Junichiro Enoki, Izumu Hosoi, Yuki Sugie, Tomoyuki Ootsuki, Koji Kashima
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Patent number: 12540892Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 13, 2020Date of Patent: February 3, 2026Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Kenji Yamane, Junichiro Enoki
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Patent number: 12471753Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 23, 2020Date of Patent: November 18, 2025Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Koji Kashima, Takeshi Miyai, Junichiro Enoki
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Patent number: 12465439Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 16, 2021Date of Patent: November 11, 2025Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Koji Kashima, Junichiro Enoki, Tomoyuki Ootsuki, Izumu Hosoi
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Patent number: 12329458Abstract: [Object] To provide a control device, an ophthalmic microscope system, an ophthalmic microscope, and an image processing apparatus by which setting of a microscope can be assisted. [Solving Means] A control device according to the present technology includes a control unit. The control unit controls, on the basis of a detection result of a surgical instrument using a captured image of an eye to be examined which is imaged by an image pickup element of an ophthalmic microscope via a front lens, at least one of an imaging condition of the image pickup element or whether or not to perform inversion processing of making an image of a region inverted through the front lens a normal image.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2020Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Junichiro Enoki, Tomoyuki Ootsuki, Yoshio Soma
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Publication number: 20250164376Abstract: To provide an information processing apparatus, at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and a method which evaluate the appropriateness of a clustering result in consideration of characteristics of multidimensional data to be clustered. An information processing apparatus comprising: at least one hardware processor; and at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing processor-executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one hardware processor, cause the at least one hardware processor to perform: receiving multidimensional data obtained from a plurality of cells; clustering the multidimensional data to generate clustering results indicating a plurality of clusters including a first cluster and a second cluster that share at least a portion of the multidimensional data; and outputting information representing reliability of the clustering results, wherein the information is indicative of a relationship between the first cluster and the second cluster.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2025Publication date: May 22, 2025Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Rei Murata, Kenji Yamane, Junichiro Enoki
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Publication number: 20250146924Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including: an information storage unit that stores a result of sensing light from cells, namely first data, and a result of separating the first data into a plurality of fluorescences, namely second data, in association with each other; a clustering unit that clusters the cells into a plurality of clusters on a basis of the second data; and an output unit that outputs a clustering result from the clustering unit. The output unit additionally outputs at least one or more of the first data and the second data about the cells included in a cluster selected by a user from among the plurality of clusters.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2025Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Kenji Yamane, Junichiro Enoki, Rei Murata, Koji Futamura, Gregory Veltri
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Publication number: 20250139795Abstract: There is provided an image processing device (13) including a displayed-image generation unit (13f) configured to generate a displayed image in which a first reference image indicating reference coordinates of a preoperative image that is a captured image of an eyeball of a patient before surgery is superimposed on the preoperative image, and a second reference image indicating reference coordinates of an intraoperative image that is a captured image of the eyeball of the patient at the start of the surgery or during the surgery is superimposed on the intraoperative image, wherein the displayed-image generation unit arranges the first reference image and the second reference image such that the respective reference coordinates of the preoperative image and the intraoperative image correspond to each other, and such that a scale, a position, or an orientation of at least one of the preoperative image or the intraoperative image is changeable, to generate the displayed image.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2022Publication date: May 1, 2025Inventors: JUNICHIRO ENOKI, IZUMU HOSOI, TOMOYUKI OOTSUKI, KOJI KASHIMA
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Patent number: 12213735Abstract: Provided is an eye examination attachment that 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: GrantFiled: March 12, 2020Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshio Soma, Tomoyuki Ootsuki, Junichiro Enoki
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Patent number: 12144547Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 8, 2019Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoshio Soma, Tomoyuki Ootsuki, Junichiro Enoki, Tatsumi Sakaguchi
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Patent number: 12114833Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 16, 2020Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Kashima, Takeshi Miyai, Junichiro Enoki
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Publication number: 20240302896Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2021Publication date: September 12, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Junichiro ENOKI, Izumu HOSOI, Yuki SUGIE, Tomoyuki OOTSUKI, Koji KASHIMA
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Publication number: 20240281973Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2022Publication date: August 22, 2024Inventors: RYOTA YAMADA, JUNICHIRO ENOKI
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Publication number: 20240169534Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2022Publication date: May 23, 2024Inventor: JUNICHIRO ENOKI
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Publication number: 20240161298Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2022Publication date: May 16, 2024Inventors: SHIORI SASADA, KAZUKI AISAKA, KENJI YAMANE, JUNICHIRO ENOKI, YOSHIYUKI KOBAYASHI, MASATO ISHII, KENJI SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20240074821Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2021Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Koji KASHIMA, Junichiro ENOKI, Tomoyuki OOTSUKI, Izumu HOSOI
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Publication number: 20240045497Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2022Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.Inventors: Junichiro ENOKI, Izumu HOSOI, Yuki SUGIE, Tomoyuki OOTSUKI, Koji KASHIMA, Hiroshi USHIRODA, Koji FUKAYA
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Publication number: 20240033035Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2022Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.Inventors: Tomoyuki OOTSUKI, Junichiro ENOKI, Hiroshi USHIRODA, Koji FUKAYA, Yuki SUGIE, Koji KASHIMA, Izumu HOSOI
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Patent number: 11850000Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 27, 2019Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Junichiro Enoki, Yoshio Soma, Tomoyuki Ootsuki