Personalized hand-eye coordinated digital stereo microscopic systems and methods

A personalization method for a digital stereo microscope system comprising a camera system configured to produce a stereo pair of images, for a left eye and a right eye of a user, the personalization method comprising:

• performing a test procedure by the user with the digital stereo microscope system and providing feedback during the test procedure;
• testing determined parameters from the test procedure for the stereo pair of images;
• adjusting and correlating resolution, magnification, and disparity from the testing of the stereo pair of images;
• storing the determined parameters from the adjusting and correlating as default values for the user;
• and
• using the determined parameters to process images on a digital microscope system, the digital microscope system comprising:
• a camera system comprising an array of camera pairs, each camera pair configured to produce a stereo pair of images captured in real-time;
• an image processing system communicatively coupled to the camera system and configured to extract the stereo pair of images, captured by a camera pair, synchronized in time with each other and to combine the stereo pair of images with encoded images of differences between the stereo pair of images;
• and
• a video processing system communicatively coupled to the image processing system and configured to create a stream from the encoded images of the camera pair by processing the encoded images based on the determined parameters to personalize the processing by the video processing system for the user,
• wherein the determined parameters for the user are stored for use by the video processing system during the processing of the encoded images and for use by the image processing system to select the camera pair from the array of camera pairs based thereon, and
• wherein the determined parameters relate to at least one of the stereo acuity of the user, ocular muscle abilities of the user, interpupillary distance of the user, and a dominant eye of the user.