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 0:
1. A control apparatus comprising
circuitry configured to:
acquire an image signal generated by an imaging device configured to image an observation target;
acquire an operation instruction made by a voice input;
control a 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.