Patent ID: 7367809
Filing Date: 2008-05-06
Classification: A61B,G06Q,G06T,G09B,G16H,H04N

Abstract:
1. A three-dimensional digital entity magnifying glass system incorporating three-dimensional visual training functions, the system used for performing assistance and training and education under direct observation, by a medical practitioner while an instructor is watching a medical practitioner's surgical field image shared by the medical practitioner and the instructor through communication secured by use of communication means by utilizing three-dimensional digital entity magnifying glasses, which are worn by both the medical practitioner and the instructor and constituted of a pair of LCDs positioned directly in front of the two eyes and by three-dimensional digital entity magnifying glasses of identical standards indicating image information from a right-side CCD camera on the right-side LCD and image information from a left-side CCD camera on the left-side LCD of automatic focusing CCD cameras equipped with a pair of synchronized zoom lenses attached toward a visual field of the naked eye from a position that correspond to a central section between the right and left pupils of the worker wearing the magnifying glass in front of the three-dimensional digital entity magnifying glass, the system comprising: a floater image-processing apparatus removing a background image by extracting only images of a three-dimensional pointing device which is operated by the instructor to provide visual training from a visual field image of the instructor captured by the instructor-side CCD camera on a front face of the visual field in front of the instructor-side three-dimensional digital entity magnifying glass; and an image chroma-key composite image-processing apparatus for composing and displaying a three-dimensional visual training float image, on which no background output is performed by the image-processing apparatus on the medical practitioner's visual field image captured by the CCD camera of the medical practitioner's three-dimensional digital entity magnifying glass shared by the medical practitioner and the instructor, wherein by utilizing the pair of synchronized three-dimensional digital entity magnifying glasses of identical standards worn by the medical practitioner and the instructor, the instructor provides visual training which is three-dimensional in the medical practitioner's three-dimensional visual field by utilizing images of the three-dimensional pointing device operated by the instructor which images are extracted by floating image processing from visual field images of the instructor captured by the instructor's CCD camera and chroma-key composed and displayed in the medical practitioner's visual field image captured by the medical practitioner's CCD camera projected onto an LCD monitor of the three-dimensional digital entity magnifying glass worn by the instructor.