US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Feb. 24 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and surgical microscope system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,999, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus (13) according to an aspect 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 eyeball in the operative field image; and a display image generation unit (13f) that sets a plura...