US Patent Issued to Sony Group on July 8 for "Medical observation system, control device, and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,860, issued on July 8, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Medical observation system, control device, and control method" was invented by Yohei Kuroda (Tokyo), Masaru Usui (Tokyo) and Jun Arai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for processing medical images including acquiring a first medical image using a medical imaging device, analyzing a state of the first medical image using image information of the first medical image which includes depth information, and automatically determining and displaying, without user intervention, a second medical image, which corresponds to the first medical image and has...