Medical system, method for performing image processing setting of medical system, and image processing device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9826209-B2
Application number	US-201615266566-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 15, 2016
Priority date	Jun 16, 2014
Publication date	Nov 21, 2017
Grant date	Nov 21, 2017

Abstract

A medical system includes a first storage that stores image information on an image that is obtained by an imaging device capturing an image of a reference subject and on which image processing is performed by a first processing device, a second storage that stores image information on an image that is obtained by the imaging device capturing an image of the reference subject and on which image processing is performed by a second processing device, a comparison unit that compares the image information stored in the first storage with the image information stored in the second storage, and a setting changing unit that changes an image processing setting of the second processing device on the basis of a result of the comparison, such that the image information stored in the second storage is identical or substantially identical to the image information stored in the first storage.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A medical system that includes a first image processing device and a second image processing device that is different from the first image processing device, and an imaging device that is connected to the first image processing device or the second image processing device, the medical system comprising:
a first storage that stores image information on an image that is obtained by the imaging device capturing an image of a reference subject and on which image processing is performed by the first image processing device;
a second storage that stores image information on an image that is obtained by the imaging device capturing an image of the reference subject and on which image processing is performed by the second image processing device;
a comparison unit that compares the image information stored in the first storage with the image information stored in the second storage; and
a setting changing unit that changes an image processing setting of the second image processing device on the basis of a result of the comparison performed by the comparison unit, such that the image information stored in the second storage is identical or substantially identical to the image information stored in the first storage.

2. The medical system according to claim 1 further comprising a display device to which image information output from the first image processing device or the second image processing device is input, so as to display an image represented by the image information, wherein the first storage, the second storage, the comparison unit, and the setting changing unit are included in the display device.

3. The medical system according to claim 1 further comprising an external storage connected to the first image processing device or the second image processing device, wherein
the first storage is a first storage area of the external storage,
the second storage is a second storage area of the external storage, and
the comparison unit and the setting changing unit are included in the second image processing device.

4. The medical system according to claim 1 , wherein the first storage, the second storage, the comparison unit and the setting changing unit are included in the second image processing device.

5. The medical system according to claim 1 , wherein the image information is RGB information or intensity information of an image or both of the pieces of the image information.

6. A method for performing an image processing setting for a medical system that includes an imaging device that is connected to a first image processing device or a second image processing device that is different from the first image processing device, the method comprising:
a first image-capturing step of capturing, by the imaging device, an image of a reference subject;
a first image-processing step of performing, by the first image processing device, image processing on the image captured by the imaging device;
a first storing step of storing, in a first storage, image information on the image on which image processing is performed by the first image processing device and that is input to a display device;
a second image-capturing step of capturing, by the imaging device, an image of the reference subject;
a second image-processing step of performing, by the second image processing device, image processing on the image captured by the imaging device;
a second storing step of storing, in a second storage, image information on the image on which image processing is performed by the second image processing device and that is input to the display device;
a comparison step of comparing the image information stored in the first storage with the image information stored in the second storage; and
a change step of changing an image processing setting of the second image processing device on the basis of a result of the comparison such that the image information stored in the second storage is identical or substantially identical to the image information stored in the first storage, wherein
the second image-processing step, the second storing step, the comparison step, and the change step are performed repeatedly until a result of the comparison that the image information stored in the second storage and the image information stored in the first storage are identical or substantially identical is obtained.

7. An image processing device comprising:
a certain image processing unit that performs image processing on an image obtained by an imaging device capturing an image of a reference subject;
a first storage that stores image information on an image that is obtained by the imaging device capturing an image of the reference subject and on which image processing is performed by another image processing unit that is different from the certain image processing unit;
a second storage that stores image information on an image on which image processing is performed by the certain image processing unit;
a comparison unit that compares the image information stored in the first storage with the image information stored in the second storage; and
a setting changing unit that changes an image processing setting of the certain image processing unit such that the image information stored in the second storage is identical or substantially identical to the image information stored in the first storage.

Assignees

• Olympus Corp

Inventors

• Koizumi Yugo
• Honda Kyoko
• Ojima Mai

Classifications

• H04N23/555

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• H04N1/6052 Primary

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• H04N23/88

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• H04N23/63

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• A61B1/00009

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