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).
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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: 12016522Abstract: 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 armType: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Wataru Kokubo, Takeshi Maeda, Tatsumi Sakaguchi
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Patent number: 11471024Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 25, 2018Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Seiji Wada, Tatsumi Sakaguchi, Takeshi Maeda, Kana Matsuura
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Patent number: 11439473Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 27, 2016Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Maeda, Seiji Wada, Tatsumi Sakaguchi, Kana Matsuura
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Publication number: 20210322125Abstract: 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 armType: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2021Publication date: October 21, 2021Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Wataru KOKUBO, Takeshi MAEDA, Tatsumi SAKAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20210311295Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2021Publication date: October 7, 2021Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Tomoyuki OOTSUKI, Tatsumi SAKAGUCHI, Yoshitomo TAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 11058509Abstract: 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 armType: GrantFiled: December 2, 2016Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Wataru Kokubo, Takeshi Maeda, Tatsumi Sakaguchi
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Patent number: 11039815Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 10, 2016Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsumi Sakaguchi, Noboru Shibuya
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Patent number: 10993838Abstract: [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: GrantFiled: March 19, 2018Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoyuki Ootsuki, Tatsumi Sakaguchi, Junichiro Enoki, Yoshio Soma
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Patent number: 10992857Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 1, 2018Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Maeda, Seiji Wada, Kana Matsuura, Tatsumi Sakaguchi
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Patent number: 10910111Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 5, 2020Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tsuneo Hayashi, Koji Kashima, Kazuki Aisaka, Masahito Yamane, Tatsumi Sakaguchi
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Publication number: 20210015362Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2019Publication date: January 21, 2021Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoshio SOMA, Tomoyuki OOTSUKI, Junichiro ENOKI, Tatsumi SAKAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20200365278Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2020Publication date: November 19, 2020Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Tsuneo Hayashi, Koji Kashima, Kazuki Aisaka, Masahito Yamane, Tatsumi Sakaguchi
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Patent number: 10770185Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 28, 2018Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tsuneo Hayashi, Koji Kashima, Kazuki Aisaka, Masahito Yamane, Tatsumi Sakaguchi
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Patent number: 10709423Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 9, 2014Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Tatsumi Sakaguchi
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Publication number: 20200175656Abstract: [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: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2018Publication date: June 4, 2020Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Junichiro ENOKI, Tatsumi SAKAGUCHI, Tomoyuki OOTSUKI, Yoshio SOMA
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Patent number: 10660614Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 19, 2014Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Tatsumi Sakaguchi
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Publication number: 20200162664Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2018Publication date: May 21, 2020Inventors: TAKESHI MAEDA, SEIJI WADA, KANA MATSUURA, TATSUMI SAKAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20200146885Abstract: [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: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2018Publication date: May 14, 2020Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Tomoyuki OOTSUKI, Tatsumi SAKAGUCHI, Junichiro ENOKI, Yoshio SOMA
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Publication number: 20200093545Abstract: [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: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2017Publication date: March 26, 2020Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Tatsumi SAKAGUCHI, Yoshio SOMA