Patents by Inventor Kana MATSUURA

Kana MATSUURA 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: 20230282345
    Abstract: Provided is a medical support system that supports medical practice by a doctor. The medical support system includes: a control unit; a recognition unit that recognizes an operative field environment; and a machine learning model that estimates an operation performed by the medical support system on the basis of a recognition result of the recognition unit. The control unit outputs determination basis information regarding the operation estimated by the machine learning model to an information presentation unit. The control unit further includes a calculation unit that calculates reliability regarding an estimation result of the machine learning model, and outputs the reliability to the information presentation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: KENJI SUZUKI, YOHEI KURODA, DAISUKE NAGAO, KANA MATSUURA
  • Publication number: 20230248468
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a medical display system, a control method, and a control device which make it possible to prevent an unintended operation. Provided is a medical display system including: a display unit that provides a display on the basis of information output from a medical device; an imaging unit that images, as an imaging region, a part of a region from which at least the display unit is viewable; a voice acquisition unit that acquires a voice in the region from which at least the display unit is viewable; and a control unit that controls display information on the basis of the information output from the medical device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: KANA MATSUURA, SHINJI KATSUKI, TAKESHI MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20230222740
    Abstract: [Problem] An aspect of the present disclosure provides a medical image processing system that facilitates the recognition of the position of a 3D model image in a medical image. [Solution] A medical image processing system includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a real-time 3D surgical image of an operation site stereoscopically viewable by a surgeon and a 3D model image that is a stereoscopic CG image associated with the 3D surgical image; and a superimposition unit that performs enhancement such that the location of the 3D model image at predetermined spatial positions is enhanced with respect to the 3D surgical image or the 3D model image at the start of superimposition of the 3D model image at the predetermined spatial positions when the 3D surgical image is stereoscopically viewed on the basis of information set for the 3D model image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: SHINJI KATSUKI, KANA MATSUURA, MOTOAKI KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11517395
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a control device, a control method, and a surgical system that enable an operator to implement operation without a burden. A control unit controls a plurality of patterns of operations of a surgical instrument, and an acquisition unit obtains motion information indicating a motion of a user. Furthermore, the control unit controls the operations of the respective patterns corresponding to the motion information obtained by the acquisition unit in parallel using only a single operation performed by the user as a trigger. The present technology can be applied to a control device of a surgical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kana Matsuura, Takeshi Maeda, Seiji Wada
  • Patent number: 11471024
    Abstract: A surgical imaging system including a surgical imaging device including identification information; a holding arm that holds and controls a position of the imaging device; a user interface configured to provide non-contact operation of the holding arm; and processing circuitry configured to control the holding arm according to the identification information and an output of the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji Wada, Tatsumi Sakaguchi, Takeshi Maeda, Kana Matsuura
  • Patent number: 11439473
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a surgical control apparatus, a surgical control method, and a program that can prevent erroneous operations of surgical apparatuses when the surgical apparatuses are controlled with contactless inputs. A state estimation block (64) estimates a state of an operator recognized by a recognition block (61) on the basis of at least one type of contactless input sent from the operator. In accordance with the state estimated by the state estimation block (64), a command block (62) restricts a control operation of a surgical camera (11), a camera arm (12), or an image processing block (66) based on at least one type of contactless input sent from the operator recognized by the recognition block (61). The present invention is applicable to a surgical system and the like that have a surgical camera (11), a camera arm (12), an action recognition camera (13), a display (14), a control apparatus (15), a pair of glasses (17), a microphone (18), a marker, a foot switch (20), etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Maeda, Seiji Wada, Tatsumi Sakaguchi, Kana Matsuura
  • Publication number: 20220265384
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a medical display system, a control device, and a control method to make it possible to present necessary information without disturbing concentration of an operator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: KANA MATSUURA, KEIICHI YOSHIOKA, KAZUMA TAKAHASHI, SHOJI WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11278369
    Abstract: To provide a control device, control method, and surgical system that can further improve safety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji Wada, Takeshi Maeda, Kana Matsuura
  • Patent number: 11151804
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device for rotating an object relative to a viewpoint position of a user in further accordance with the user's desire, the information processing device including: a rotation center determination unit that determines a center of rotation based on a position of an object in a three-dimensional space and an instruction direction of a user in the three-dimensional space; and a rotation control unit that rotates the object relative to a viewpoint position of the user on the basis of the center of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryouhei Yasuda, Takuro Noda, Seiji Wada, Takeshi Maeda, Kana Matsuura
  • Patent number: 10992857
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an input control device, an input control method, and an operation system, which enable achievement of a highly flexible input operation without a burden on a user. A target point determination unit determines a target point to be a display reference in an operative field image in a display, on the basis of a user's line-of-sight position with respect to the operative field image displayed in the display and of a characteristic point detected in the operative field image. The present technology can be applied to an input device for an operation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Maeda, Seiji Wada, Kana Matsuura, Tatsumi Sakaguchi
  • Publication number: 20200179077
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a control device, a control method, and a surgical system that enable an operator to implement operation without a burden. A control unit controls a plurality of patterns of operations of a surgical instrument, and an acquisition unit obtains motion information indicating a motion of a user. Furthermore, the control unit controls the operations of the respective patterns corresponding to the motion information obtained by the acquisition unit in parallel using only a single operation performed by the user as a trigger. The present technology can be applied to a control device of a surgical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: KANA MATSUURA, TAKESHI MAEDA, SEIJI WADA
  • Publication number: 20200162664
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an input control device, an input control method, and an operation system, which enable achievement of a highly flexible input operation without a burden on a user. A target point determination unit determines a target point to be a display reference in an operative field image in a display, on the basis of a user's line-of-sight position with respect to the operative field image displayed in the display and of a characteristic point detected in the operative field image. The present technology can be applied to an input device for an operation system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: TAKESHI MAEDA, SEIJI WADA, KANA MATSUURA, TATSUMI SAKAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200085282
    Abstract: A surgical imaging system including a surgical imaging device including identification information; a holding arm that holds and controls a position of the imaging device; a user interface configured to provide non-contact operation of the holding arm; and processing circuitry configured to control the holding arm according to the identification information and an output of the user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji WADA, Tatsumi SAKAGUCHI, Takeshi MAEDA, Kana MATSUURA
  • Publication number: 20200037847
    Abstract: [Problem] To be able to visually recognize a treatment region from an angle different from a direction in which an endoscope is inserted when an inside of a human body is to be observed using the endoscope. [Solving Means] According to the present disclosure, there is provided a control apparatus for a medical system, including a recognizing section that recognizes instruction information for indicating an area whose image is to be captured by an endoscope that is inserted into an inside of a human body through a trocar and captures an image of the inside of the human body, and a control information generator that generates first control information for turning the endoscope about the trocar and second control information for magnifying the area whose image is to be captured by the endoscope, based on the instruction information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji WADA, Tatsumi SAKAGUCHI, Takeshi MAEDA, Kana MATSUURA
  • Publication number: 20190328479
    Abstract: To provide a control device, control method, and surgical system that can further improve safety.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji WADA, Takeshi MAEDA, Kana MATSUURA
  • Publication number: 20190172271
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device for rotating an object relative to a viewpoint position of a user in further accordance with the user's desire, the information processing device including: a rotation center determination unit that determines a center of rotation based on a position of an object in a three-dimensional space and an instruction direction of a user in the three-dimensional space; and a rotation control unit that rotates the object relative to a viewpoint position of the user on the basis of the center of rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryouhei YASUDA, Takuro NODA, Seiji WADA, Takeshi MAEDA, Kana MATSUURA
  • Publication number: 20180256272
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a surgical control apparatus, a surgical control method, and a program that can prevent erroneous operations of surgical apparatuses when the surgical apparatuses are controlled with contactless inputs. A state estimation block (64) estimates a state of an operator recognized by a recognition block (61) on the basis of at least one type of contactless input sent from the operator. In accordance with the state estimated by the state estimation block (64), a command block (62) restricts a control operation of a surgical camera (11), a camera arm (12), or an image processing block (66) based on at least one type of contactless input sent from the operator recognized by the recognition block (61). The present invention is applicable to a surgical system and the like that have a surgical camera (11), a camera arm (12), an action recognition camera (13), a display (14), a control apparatus (15), a pair of glasses (17), a microphone (18), a marker, a foot switch (20), etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi MAEDA, Seiji WADA, Tatsumi SAKAGUCHI, Kana MATSUURA