ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,183, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc. (Tokyo).
"Medical control device and medical observation system" was invented by Masataka Kado (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical control device includes: determination circuitry configured to determine whether or not a specific surgical tool is included in a captured image based on an image signal generated by an imaging device configured to capture an image of a subject eye; image generation circuitry configured to generate an image for display based on the image signal; and a state controller configured to control, in a case where the determin...