US Patent Issued to Sony Group, Sony Olympus Medical Solutions on Sept. 8 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and operation microscope system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,504, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo) and Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and operation microscope system" was invented by Junichiro Enoki (Tokyo), Izumu Hosoi (Tokyo), Yuki Sugie (Tokyo), Tomoyuki Ootsuki (Tokyo), Koji Kashima (Tokyo), Hiroshi Ushiroda (Tokyo) and Koji Fukaya (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus (13) according to one form of the present disclosure includes: an image input unit (13b) that receives an operative field image for an eye of a patient; an eyeball tracking unit (13e) that tracks an ey...