Three-dimensional digital entity mesoscope system equipped with three-dimensional visual instruction functions

A three-dimensional digital entity magnifying glass system incorporating three-dimensional visual training functions, the system used for performing assistance and training and education, relating to surgical operations and other highly precision oriented techniques performed, 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 such as the internet or an intranet 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 for 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 for removing a background image by extracting only images of a three-dimensional pointing device which is operated by the instructor to provide visual training, or various kinds of instruments (dummies) identical to those used by the medical practitioner 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;
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• 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, in a minimum configuration, 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 and produces a sense of reality in the medical practitioner's three-dimensional visual field by utilizing images of the three-dimensional pointing device operated by the instructor or various instruments (dummies) identical to those used by the medical practitioner 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 (virtual three-dimensional 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.