Patent ID: 11962747
Assignee: SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  A  G | IPC A  G  H

Claim 13:
14. A method of processing a medical image, comprising:
acquiring a first left-eye image and a first right-eye image having parallax each of which is obtained by capturing light from an observation target irradiated with light in a first wavelength band, the observation target emitting fluorescence when irradiated with excitation light in a second wavelength band different from the first wavelength band;
acquiring a second left-eye image and a second right-eye image having parallax each of which is obtained by capturing the fluorescence from the observation target irradiated with the excitation light;
superimposing corresponding pixels of the first left-eye image and the second left-eye image on each other to generate a left-eye fluorescence superimposed image and superimpose corresponding pixels of the first right-eye image and the second right-eye image on each other to generate a right-eye fluorescence superimposed image;
generating a display image from the first left-eye image, the first right-eye image, the second left-eye image, the second right-eye image, the left-eye fluorescence superimposed image, and the right-eye fluorescence superimposed image, wherein the display image includes a stereoscopically observable three-dimensional fluorescence superimposed image generated from the left-eye fluorescence superimposed image and the right-eye fluorescence superimposed image;
executing image processing on the first left-eye image in a first image processor;
executing image processing on the first right-eye image in a second image processor;
executing image processing on the second left-eye image in a third image processor;
executing image processing on the second right-eye image in a fourth image processor;
switching between a first observation mode or a second observation mode;
in the first observation mode, outputting the first left-eye image, the first right-eye image, the second left-eye image, and the second right-eye image, to the first, second, third, and fourth image processors, and generating the left-eye fluorescence superimposed image and the right-eye fluorescence superimposed image in the first observation mode; and
in the second observation mode, dividing one of the first left-eye image and the first right-eye image into four divided images and outputting the four divided images to the first image processor, the second image processor, the third image processor, and the fourth image processor.