Patents by Inventor Tatsumi Sakaguchi

Tatsumi Sakaguchi 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: 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: 20210322125
    Abstract: A medical safety control apparatus that includes processing circuitry that obtains a surgical instrument-biological tissue distance, determine whether the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is greater than a predetermined first restricted distance, in response to determining that the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is not greater than the predetermined first restricted distance, issues an instruction for stopping a motion of an arm of a support arm apparatus that supports the surgical instrument, in response to determining that the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is greater than the predetermined first restricted distance, determines whether the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is greater than a predetermined second restricted distance, and in response to determining that the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is not greater than the predetermined second restricted distance, issues a first instruction for restricting a motion speed of the arm
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Wataru KOKUBO, Takeshi MAEDA, Tatsumi SAKAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210311295
    Abstract: A surgical image processing apparatus, including circuitry that is configured to perform image recognition on an intraoperative image of an eye. The circuitry is further configured to determine a cross-section for acquiring a tomographic image based on a result of the image recognition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyuki OOTSUKI, Tatsumi SAKAGUCHI, Yoshitomo TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 11058509
    Abstract: A medical safety control apparatus that includes processing circuitry that obtains a surgical instrument-biological tissue distance, determine whether the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is greater than a predetermined first restricted distance, in response to determining that the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is not greater than the predetermined first restricted distance, issues an instruction for stopping a motion of an arm of a support arm apparatus that supports the surgical instrument, in response to determining that the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is greater than the predetermined first restricted distance, determines whether the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is greater than a predetermined second restricted distance, and in response to determining that the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is not greater than the predetermined second restricted distance, issues a first instruction for restricting a motion speed of the arm
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wataru Kokubo, Takeshi Maeda, Tatsumi Sakaguchi
  • Patent number: 11039815
    Abstract: There is provided a signal processing apparatus including a signal processor for processing a signal to be received from or to be transmitted to a vibrator constituting a probe, and a controller for controlling a signal processing parameter of the signal processor to lower a performance of the signal processor when a motion parameter showing a characteristic of a motion of the probe is large.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsumi Sakaguchi, Noboru Shibuya
  • 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
  • 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
  • Patent number: 10910111
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a detecting unit that detects behavior information and biological information of a user as a target; a biological information estimating unit that calculates estimated biological information by applying, to a metabolism model, the behavior information and the biological information detected by the detecting unit; and a suggesting unit that suggests, to the user, a recommended behavior calculated based on the estimated biological information calculated by the biological information estimating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuneo Hayashi, Koji Kashima, Kazuki Aisaka, Masahito Yamane, Tatsumi Sakaguchi
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20200365278
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a detecting unit that detects behavior information and biological information of a user as a target; a biological information estimating unit that calculates estimated biological information by applying, to a metabolism model, the behavior information and the biological information detected by the detecting unit; and a suggesting unit that suggests, to the user, a recommended behavior calculated based on the estimated biological information calculated by the biological information estimating unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuneo Hayashi, Koji Kashima, Kazuki Aisaka, Masahito Yamane, Tatsumi Sakaguchi
  • Patent number: 10770185
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a detecting unit that detects behavior information and biological information of a user as a target; a biological information estimating unit that calculates estimated biological information by applying, to a metabolism model, the behavior information and the biological information detected by the detecting unit; and a suggesting unit that suggests, to the user, a recommended behavior calculated based on the estimated biological information calculated by the biological information estimating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuneo Hayashi, Koji Kashima, Kazuki Aisaka, Masahito Yamane, Tatsumi Sakaguchi
  • Patent number: 10709423
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an ultrasound processing apparatus and method, and a program that enable easy and stable measurement of tissue characteristics. A vibrator driving unit drives a vibrator incorporated in an ultrasound probe based on a vibration parameter from a vibrator control unit. The vibrator control unit supplies a vibration parameter that is set in accordance with an indication signal input via a user interface, distribution information of viscoelastic coefficients, which is a measurement result of strain computed by a strain computation unit, or the like, and controls the vibrator driving unit. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an ultrasound diagnostic imaging apparatus that generates an ultrasound image based on a signal from a probe that captures an ultrasound image, and displays the ultrasound image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tatsumi Sakaguchi
  • 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
  • Patent number: 10660614
    Abstract: An ultrasonic processing apparatus includes a viscoelastic coefficient calculation unit that calculates a viscoelastic coefficient of an object from an ultrasonic signal acquired through an oscillator of a probe; and a spatial change amount calculation unit that calculates spatial change amount of the viscoelastic coefficient calculated by the viscoelastic coefficient calculation unit and outputs the calculated spatial change amount as brightness information when displaying an image relating to the viscoelastic coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tatsumi Sakaguchi
  • 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: 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
  • Publication number: 20200093545
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a control apparatus, a control method, and a medical observation system. [Solution] A control apparatus including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire dental mirror detection information from a picked up image acquired by an image pickup apparatus; and a control unit configured to, on the basis of the dental mirror detection information, perform at least one of image processing on the picked up image or arm control processing that controls an arm unit that supports the image pickup apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsumi SAKAGUCHI, Yoshio SOMA
  • 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