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US 5,825,532 AGranted
Microscopic system integrated with wide-screen television
AssigneeNHK Engineering Services, Inc.
InventorsRyo Mochizuki, Shinrokuro Nagashima, Hiroshi Saito
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Abstract
Disclosed hereby is a microscopic system integrated with wide-screen television in which a medical information is combined with an image signal picked up by an imaging device including a microscope, a wide-screen television camera and an adaptor for mounting the camera on the microscope; the synthesized image signal is transmitted to be recorded/reproduced and the synthesized image is displayed as a stereoscopic image.
Claims3
A high-definition television (HDTV) stereoscopic microscope system for performing an operation while watching an HDTV monitor, comprising:
- an optical adaptor to:
- input left and right images from a binocular microscope, respectively,
- route said the inputted left and right images so that they can be viewed by the left and right eyes of a human being, and
- output the left and right images to an HDTV camera;
- conversion means for converting medical information relating to a patient into images according to the region to be operated so as to be superimposed on the left and right images from said HDTV camera;
- superimposing means for superimposing the converted medical information on the left and right images;
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- display means for displaying the left and right images superimposed medical information as a stereoscopic live image on said HDTV monitor.
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