MEDICAL ARM CONTROL SYSTEM, MEDICAL ARM CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM

Abstract

Provided is a medical arm control system (200) including: a range setting unit (216) that sets a cutout range in which a second image is cut out from a first image by a medical observation device supported by an arm unit; a light amount acquisition unit (224) that acquires a light amount distribution of the first image and a light amount distribution of the second image; a distance acquisition unit (222) that acquires distance information indicating a distance between a subject of the medical observation device and the medical observation device; and an arm control unit (203) that controls the arm unit on the basis of the light amount distributions of the first and second images and the distance information.

Description

Claims

1. A medical arm control system comprising: a range setting unit that sets a cutout range in which a second image is cut out from a first image by a medical observation device supported by an arm unit;a light amount acquisition unit that acquires a light amount distribution of the first image and a light amount distribution of the second image;a distance acquisition unit that acquires distance information indicating a distance between a subject of the medical observation device and the medical observation device; andan arm control unit that controls the arm unit based on the light amount distributions of the first and second images and the distance information.

2. The medical arm control system according to claim 1, wherein the light amount acquisition unit acquires the light amount distribution of the second image from the light amount distribution of the first image.

3. The medical arm control system according to claim 1, further comprising a sensor control unit that controls a gain of an image sensor of the medical observation device based on the light amount distributions of the first and second images and the distance information.

4. The medical arm control system according to claim 1, wherein an angle of view of the second image is narrower than an angle of view of the first image.

5. The medical arm control system according to claim 1, wherein the medical observation device is a wide-angle endoscope.

6. The medical arm control system according to claim 1, wherein the medical observation device is a stereo endoscope, andthe distance acquisition unit acquires the distance information based on two of the first images by the stereo endoscope.

7. The medical arm control system according to claim 1, further comprising a distance measuring device.

8. The medical arm control system according to claim 7, wherein the distance measuring device performs distance measurement using a ToF method or a structured light method.

9. The medical arm control system according to claim 1, further comprising a correction unit that corrects distortion of the first image.

10. The medical arm control system according to claim 1, further comprising a focus adjustment unit that automatically adjusts a focus of the medical observation device.

11. The medical arm control system according to claim 1, further comprising a magnification adjustment unit that automatically adjusts a magnification of the second image.

12. The medical arm control system according to claim 1, further comprising an attitude recognition unit that recognizes an attitude of the arm unit.

13. The medical arm control system according to claim 12, wherein the attitude recognition unit recognizes an attitude of the arm unit based on the first image.

14. The medical arm control system according to claim 12, wherein the attitude recognition unit recognizes the attitude of the arm unit based on sensing data from an inertial measurement device provided in the arm unit or lengths and angles of a plurality of elements included in the arm unit.

15. The medical arm control system according to claim 12, further comprising an instrument recognition unit that recognizes a medical instrument based on the first image.

16. The medical arm control system according to claim 15, wherein the range setting unit sets the cutout range for cutting out the second image based on at least one information of the distance information, the attitude of the arm unit, or the medical instrument.

17. The medical arm control system according to claim 1, further comprising the arm unit.

18. A medical arm control method, by a medical arm control device, comprising: setting a cutout range in which a second image is cut out from a first image by a medical observation device supported by an arm unit;acquiring a light amount distribution of the first image and a light amount distribution of the second image;acquiring distance information indicating a distance between a subject of the medical observation device and the medical observation device; andcontrolling the arm unit based on the light amount distributions of the first and second images and the distance information.

19. A program causing a computer to function as: a range setting unit that sets a cutout range in which a second image is cut out from a first image by a medical observation device supported by an arm unit;a light amount acquisition unit that acquires a light amount distribution of the first image and a light amount distribution of the second image;a distance acquisition unit that acquires distance information indicating a distance between a subject of the medical observation device and the medical observation device; andan arm control unit that controls the arm unit based on the light amount distributions of the first and second images and the distance information.