公开(公告)号：US20190051039A1

公开(公告)日：2019-02-14

申请号：US16078057

申请日：2017-02-10

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

Inventor： Daisuke TSURU ,  Tsuneo HAYASHI ,  Yasuaki TAKAHASHI ,  Koji KASHIMA ,  Kenji IKEDA

IPC: G06T15/60 ,  G06T7/00 ,  A61B1/05 ,  G06T15/80 ,  G06T5/50 ,  A61B1/06

Abstract: The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, a program, and a surgical system, capable of appropriately providing medical image with shadow/shade.The image processing apparatus determines whether shadow/shade is to be added or suppressed onto a medical image and controls to generate a shadow/shade corrected image on the basis of a determination result. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a surgical system or the like of performing a surgery while viewing a medical image photographed by an endoscope.