United States
US 12,702,500 B2
Controller, endoscope system, and control method
US 12,702,500 B2 is a granted patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), dated 2026-08-11. Applicant: National Cancer Center; OLYMPUS CORPORATION. Its PDF downloads from this page without an account, up to 5 a day.
- Applicant
- National Cancer Center; OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Inventors
- Hiroto OGIMOTO; Ryota SASAI; Masaru YANAGIHARA; Hiro HASEGAWA; Daichi KITAGUCHI; Nobuyoshi TAKESHITA; Shigehiro KOJIMA; Yuki FURUSAWA; Yumi KINEBUCHI; Masaaki ITO
- Publication date
- 2026-08-11
- Filing date
- 2023-02-03
- Document type
- B2 Granted patent
- Also written as
- US 12,702,500 B2 · US12702500 · 12702500
Abstract
A controller controls a movement of an endoscope to cause the endoscope to follow a surgical instrument. The controller includes a processor. The processor acquires position information including the position of the surgical instrument, acquires scene information associated with a procedure scene to be observed through the endoscope, determines an offset parameter, which determines the position of the target point with respect to a predetermined fiducial point in the field of view of the endoscope, of a target point on the basis of the scene information, sets the position of the target point w…
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