US 12,171,602 B2
Operation device and X-ray diagnosis system
Hajime Yoshida, Nasushiobara (JP); Keisuke Sugawara, Otawara (JP); Hiroshi Yoshida, Yaita (JP); Yusuke Narabu, Nasushiobara (JP); Akio Tetsuka, Shioya-gun (JP); and Shingo Abe, Nasushiobara (JP)
Assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Otawara (JP)
Filed by CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Otawara (JP)
Filed on Nov. 10, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/454,356.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-188985 (JP), filed on Nov. 12, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0142596 A1, May 12, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 6/00 (2024.01); A61B 6/46 (2024.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 6/467 (2013.01) [A61B 6/547 (2013.01); G06F 3/011 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An operation device, comprising:
a detector configured to detect an operation on a virtual switch by an operator to operate an X-ray irradiation in an X-ray diagnosis apparatus, wherein the virtual switch is impalpable and virtually set at a position settled relatively with respect to the operator; and
output circuitry configured to output a detection result of the operation detected by the detector to the X-ray diagnosis apparatus to be operated,
wherein the virtual switch set at the position settled relatively with respect to the operator is a virtual foot switch, which is subject to a stepping operation executed by the operator, and
the detector is further configured to determine that the stepping operation is executed when a pressure equal to or greater than a threshold value is detected at a pedal position of the virtual foot switch after a foot of the operator moves vertically.