US Patent Issued to NEC on May 13 for "Surgical operation support apparatus, surgical operation support method, and computer-readable recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,549, issued on May 13, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Surgical operation support apparatus, surgical operation support method, and computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Masahiro Saikou (Tokyo), Ryuichi Hiraike (Tokyo) and Ryosaku Shino (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical operation support apparatus 1 for performing effective display with respect to a target site image according to the situation has a detection unit 2 that detects a target site image from an image capturing an inside of a living body, an estimation unit 3 that estimates whether the target site image is being observed, and a display info...