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).

  • Publication number: 20210259824
    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: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: YOSHIO SOMA, TOMOYUKI OOTSUKI, JUNICHIRO ENOKI
  • Publication number: 20210251483
    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: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: JUNICHIRO ENOKI, YOSHIO SOMA, TOMOYUKI OOTSUKI
  • Patent number: 10993838
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an image processing device, an image processing method, and an image processing program that make it possible to perform an appropriate operation according to a procedure. [Solving Means] An image processing device according to the present technology includes: an image recognition section that performs an image recognition with respect to a front image that is a captured image of an eye; a display information generator that generates display information; and a controller that controls at least one of a cross-sectional information acquisition section or the display information generator according to a selected procedure, the cross-sectional information acquisition section acquiring cross-sectional information regarding a cross section of an eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Ootsuki, Tatsumi Sakaguchi, Junichiro Enoki, Yoshio Soma
  • Publication number: 20210015362
    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: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshio SOMA, Tomoyuki OOTSUKI, Junichiro ENOKI, Tatsumi SAKAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10846916
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus and an image processing method that can follow a fast movement of a virtual point to change a high-precision image. A position correction unit corrects a three-dimensional position of a point of a boundary of an occlusion area among a plurality of points, the three-dimensional position being included in three-dimensional data including three-dimensional positions and color information of the plurality of points, the three-dimensional data being generated from color image data and depth image data from a predetermined viewpoint. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus or the like that generates color image data from a virtual viewpoint on the basis of color image data and depth image data from a predetermined viewpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi Araki, Nobuaki Izumi, Junichiro Enoki
  • Publication number: 20200200671
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Yamane, Junichiro Enoki, Rei Murata, Koji Futamura, Gregory Veltri
  • Publication number: 20200175656
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an image processing apparatus, an ophthalmic observation apparatus, and an ophthalmic observation system that are suitable for observation of eyes. [Solving Means] An image processing apparatus according to the present technology includes an image generation unit. The image generation unit inverts, in a captured image captured via a front lens attached to an eye, an inverted area that is an image area in which an image is inverted by the front lens in the image area, and generates a display image. [Selected Drawing] FIG.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Junichiro ENOKI, Tatsumi SAKAGUCHI, Tomoyuki OOTSUKI, Yoshio SOMA
  • Publication number: 20200146885
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an image processing device, an image processing method, and an image processing program that make it possible to perform an appropriate operation according to a procedure. [Solving Means] An image processing device according to the present technology includes: an image recognition section that performs an image recognition with respect to a front image that is a captured image of an eye; a display information generator that generates display information; and a controller that controls at least one of a cross-sectional information acquisition section or the display information generator according to a selected procedure, the cross-sectional information acquisition section acquiring cross-sectional information regarding a cross section of an eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyuki OOTSUKI, Tatsumi SAKAGUCHI, Junichiro ENOKI, Yoshio SOMA
  • Patent number: 10636384
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a program with which image data displayed in a display area of a terminal at a still position can be processed are provided. The image processing apparatus includes a still position detection section and a display control section. The still position detection section detects a still position of a terminal including a display area. The display control section controls a display form of image data that can be displayed from the display area based on the still position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisako Sugano, Junichiro Enoki
  • Patent number: 10617400
    Abstract: It is desired that a technique be provided that is capable of ensuring more reliable voice communication during surgery among surgical participants. Provided is a control device including a sound-output-control unit that controls sound output by a sound-output device on a basis of information related to surgery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichiro Enoki, Yasuaki Takahashi, Seiji Wada, Koji Kashima, Kenta Yamaguchi, Yukihiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20190328225
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an image processing device and a method, and an operating microscope system that enable an operation to be performed more comfortably. An image processing device includes: an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a coaxial illumination image obtained by performing coaxial illumination on an eye being an operation target, and an oblique illumination image obtained by performing oblique illumination on the eye; and an image processing unit configured to generate an operative field image of the eye on the basis of the coaxial illumination image and the oblique illumination image, or detect a specific region on the basis of at least either one of the coaxial illumination image or the oblique illumination image. The present technology may be applied to a microscope system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Junichiro ENOKI
  • Publication number: 20190125319
    Abstract: It is desired that a technique be provided that is capable of ensuring more reliable voice communication during surgery among surgical participants. Provided is a control device including a sound-output-control unit that controls sound output by a sound-output device on a basis of information related to surgery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichiro ENOKI, Yasuaki TAKAHASHI, Seiji WADA, Koji KASHIMA, Kenta YAMAGUCHI, Yukihiro NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20190038364
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an image processing device and method, a surgical system, and a surgical member with which a position and an orientation of the surgical member for surgery of a subject can be easily grasped. The present invention acquires a microscopic image (201) obtained by photographing the surgical member (121) inserted to the subject with a surgical microscope (112), estimates the relative posture of the surgical member in the subject on the basis of the acquired microscopic image (201), and outputs posture information (222, 223, 224) associated with the posture that has been estimated. The present invention can be applied to ophthalmic surgery, in which an intraocular endoscope or surgical tool is observed with a surgical microscope, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junichiro ENOKI
  • Publication number: 20180315239
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus and an image processing method that can follow a fast movement of a virtual point to change a high-precision image. A position correction unit corrects a three-dimensional position of a point of a boundary of an occlusion area among a plurality of points, the three-dimensional position being included in three-dimensional data including three-dimensional positions and color information of the plurality of points, the three-dimensional data being generated from color image data and depth image data from a predetermined viewpoint. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus or the like that generates color image data from a virtual viewpoint on the basis of color image data and depth image data from a predetermined viewpoint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi ARAKI, Nobuaki IZUMI, Junichiro ENOKI
  • Publication number: 20170116960
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a program with which image data displayed in a display area of a terminal at a still position can be processed. [Solving Means] According to an embodiment of the present technique, there is provided an image processing apparatus including a still position detection section and a display control section. The still position detection section detects a still position of a terminal including a display area. The display control section controls a display form of image data that can be displayed from the display area based on the still position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: HISAKO SUGANO, JUNICHIRO ENOKI
  • Patent number: 9560356
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes, using encoded streams produced by individually encoding macro blocks arranged in a horizontal direction into a same slice for a plurality of image contents, a stream combination section configured to generate an encoded stream of a multi-image playback image displaying the plurality of image contents at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Fujimoto, Junichiro Enoki
  • Publication number: 20150279009
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an information acquisition unit configured to acquire information detected based on an activity performed along with capturing an image; an analysis unit configured to analyze an imaging situation of the image based on the information; and an image quality adjustment unit configured to perform, based on the analyzed imaging situation, image quality adjustment processing on image data corresponding to the imaging situation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: JUNICHIRO ENOKI, HISAKO SUGANO
  • Publication number: 20140253806
    Abstract: A video processing apparatus includes a combining unit that combines encoded streams of a plurality of videos to generate an encoded stream of a multiple-video image composed of the videos, each encoded stream of each video having coding units in each horizontal line that are encoded as a slice, and an insertion unit that inserts an insertion stream into the encoded stream of the multiple-video image generated by the combining unit when a view area of the multiple-video image is moved. The insertion stream is an encoded stream in which all the coding units in the multiple-video image are replaced with skip macroblocks with a motion vector indicating a direction and an amount of movement of the view area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Yano, Yuji Fujimoto, Junichiro Enoki
  • Patent number: 8817881
    Abstract: A video processing apparatus includes a combining unit that combines encoded streams of a plurality of videos to generate an encoded stream of a multiple-video image composed of the videos, each encoded stream of each video having coding units in each horizontal line that are encoded as a slice, and an insertion unit that inserts an insertion stream into the encoded stream of the multiple-video image generated by the combining unit when a view area of the multiple-video image is moved. The insertion stream is an encoded stream in which all the coding units in the multiple-video image are replaced with skip macroblocks with a motion vector indicating a direction and an amount of movement of the view area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Yano, Yuji Fujimoto, Junichiro Enoki
  • Patent number: 8433152
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first generating unit, a second generating unit, and an updating unit. The first generating unit generates a point spread function representing the degree of blurring generated in the input image. The second generating unit generates a plurality of corrected block images obtained by correcting blurring of structure components of plural input block images based on the point spread function. The updating unit executes one or more times an updating process to update the corrected block images, followed by making structure components of the updated corrected block images into new corrected block images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Watanabe, Junichiro Enoki