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Sony patents system that adjusts biological image labels by zoom level

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Sony describes a device that takes labels created from images of biological samples and converts them into different versions. These new labels are designed to be displayed when the image is zoomed in or out.

Why it mattersThis could help researchers see the right amount of detail in medical or lab images without cluttering the screen.

In the filing’s own words

There is provided an information processing device including a storage unit that stores first annotation data generated from image data of a biological specimen and conversion processing information, a conversion unit that converts, using the conversion processing information, the first annotation data into a plurality of second annotation data incidental to the first annotation data, and an output unit that outputs the first annotation data or the second annotation data.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. An information processing device, comprising: circuitry configured to store first annotation data generated from image data of a biological sample and conversion processing information, convert, using the conversion processing information, the first annotation data into second annotation data incidental to the first annotation data, and output the first annotation data or the second annotation data, wherein the first annotation data and the second annotation data are displayed at different display magnifications.

Facts

Company
Sony (Sony Group Corporation)
Official title
INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND CONVERSION MODEL
Publication number
US20260310886A1
Application number
19707924
Filed
Jun 15, 2026
Published
Oct 8, 2026
Inventors
5
Claims
20

Classified under

G06F 40/169 Physics & computingG06V 20/70 Physics & computing

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