US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Aug. 26 for "Medical observation device, observation device, observation method, and adapter" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,634, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Medical observation device, observation device, observation method, and adapter" was invented by Yohei Kuroda (Tokyo), Shinji Katsuki (Tokyo), Kei Tomatsu (Tokyo), Yugo Katsuki (Tokyo) and Daisuke Nagao (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a medical observation device that includes an imaging unit that can image an environment inside an abdominal cavity of a living body, and the imaging unit includes a plurality of first pixels that are aligned in a matrix, and an event detection unit that detects a luminance change amount of light incident on each ...