US Patent Issued to Sony Group on Nov. 11 for "Image processing device, image processing method, and surgical microscope system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,439, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing device, image processing method, and surgical microscope system" was invented by Koji Kashima (Tokyo), Junichiro Enoki (Tokyo), Tomoyuki Ootsuki (Tokyo) and Izumu Hosoi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided an image processing device (13) including an image input unit (13b) that receives an operative field image; a display image generation unit (13f) that superimposes a first guide guiding a user to a motion of a surgery start instruction on the operative field image to generate a display image; and a processing start unit (13g) that starts s...