Patent ID: 11882355
Assignee: SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H  A | IPC A  G  H

Claim 8:
9. A medical observation system comprising:
an imaging device configured to image an observation target and generate an image signal;
a display device configured to display an image; and
a control apparatus including
a circuitry configured to
acquire the image signal generated by the imaging device,
acquire an operation instruction made by a voice input,
control the display device to display a plurality of images generated based on the image signal corresponding to an operating state of the imaging device, together with information related to the operating state, in a case where the operation instruction is an operation instruction related to imaging of the imaging device,
control to change the imaging device to an operating state corresponding to the image selected by a user among the plurality of images, wherein the operation instruction is a voice signal generated by a microphone configured to receive a voice input;
recognize information carried by the voice signal, determine whether or not the information carried by the voice signal is an instruction to stop the operation based on a first phoneme of the voice signal;
stop an operation in a case where the recognized information is an instruction to stop the operation; and
change the imaging device to the operating state designated by the voice signal in a case where the recognized information after stop of the operation is information designating the operating state.