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US 11,759,093 B2Granted
Surgical system including a non-white light general illuminator
AssigneeIntuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
InventorsJeffrey DiCarlo, Stephen J. Blumenkranz, Brian D. Hoffman, Geoff Richmond, Tao Zhao
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Abstract
An apparatus may configure an illuminator to illuminate a scene with non-white light and control a camera to capture, in a plurality of color channels of the camera, a frame of the scene illuminated with the non-white light. The apparatus may adjust a signal of a color channel of the camera in the frame of the scene based on the non-white light.
Claims17
A system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- memory storing executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause an apparatus to:
- configure an illuminator comprising a plurality of color component illumination sources to illuminate a scene with non-white light, the configuring the illuminator to illuminate the scene with the non-white light comprising weighting an output illumination level of a color component illumination source so that a combination of the light output by the plurality of color component illumination sources is the non-white light;
- control a camera to capture, in a plurality of color channels of the camera, a frame of the scene illuminated with the non-white light;
- and
- adjust, based on the weighting the output illumination level of the color component illumination source, pixel values of a color channel of the camera in the frame of the scene based on the non-white light.
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A method comprising:
- configuring, by a computing device, an illuminator comprising a plurality of color component illumination sources to illuminate a scene with non-white light, the configuring the illuminator to illuminate the scene with the non-white light comprising weighting an output illumination level of a color component illumination source so that a combination of the light output by the plurality of color component illumination sources is the non-white light;
- controlling, by the computing device, a camera to capture, in a plurality of color channels of the camera, a frame of the scene illuminated with the non-white light;
- and
- adjusting, by the computing device based on the weighting the output illumination level of the color component illumination source, pixel values of a color channel of the camera in the frame of the scene based on the non-white light.
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A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed, cause a processor of a computing device to:
- configure an illuminator comprising a plurality of color component illumination sources to illuminate a scene with non-white light, the configuring the illuminator to illuminate the scene with the non-white light comprises weighting an output illumination level of a color component illumination source so that a combination of the light output by the plurality of color component illumination sources is the non-white light;
- control a camera to capture, in a plurality of color channels of the camera, a frame of the scene illuminated with the non-white light;
- and
- adjust, based on the weighting the output illumination level of the color component illumination source, pixel values of a color channel of the camera in the frame of the scene based on the non-white light.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.