US Patent Issued to SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS on March 18 for "Control device and medical observation system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,142, issued on March 18, was assigned to SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo).

"Control device and medical observation system" was invented by Kazuhiro Yamaguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a control device that electrically controls a medical observation apparatus configured to capture an image of an observation target and includes a voice recognition section, a recognized-information processing section, a switch input reception section, and a control section. The voice recognition section recognizes a voice inputted from outside. Based on a result of recognition by the voice recognition section, the re...