Method and system for displaying holographic images within a real object
AssigneeReal View Imaging Ltd.
InventorsShaul Alexander Gelman, Carmel Rotschild, Elchanan Bruckheimer, Aviad Kaufman, Dalia Dickman
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Abstract
A system for displaying a holographic image of an object behind a real object surface, including a computing unit for computing data for displaying a three-dimensional image of an object, a location measurement unit for measuring a location of a surface of a real object, a display for displaying the three dimensional image of the object, wherein the computing unit is adapted to compute data to display the three-dimensional image of the object at least partly behind the surface of the real object. Related apparatus and methods are also described.
Claims20
A method for producing an image comprising visual representations of a real internal organ of a patient and a real medical tool which are at least partially hidden from view in the real-world by the patient's body, the image depicting the internal organ and the medical tool as visible, and further as located in space at the same real-world positions as the respective real internal organ and the real medical tool relative to a body of the patient, the method comprising:
- (a) obtaining, by a circuitry, a dataset comprising a three-dimensional (3D) location and orientation in space of the following:
- i. an imaging device relative to a display;
- ii. at least a portion of an internal organ of a patient
- (b) tracking, by the circuitry, a location and orientation in space of the medical tool;
- (c) generating, by the circuitry, locations of the internal organ and the medical tool relative to the display, based on the dataset and the tracked location of the medical tool;
- (d) generating the visual representations of the at least a portion of the internal organ and the portion of the medical tool that are hidden from view;
- (e) producing an image which includes the visual representations positioned based on the generated locations;
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- (f) displaying, on the display, the image such that the visual representations appear in co-registration with their respective real-world internal organ and medical tool;
- wherein the displaying comprises displaying the visual representation of the portion of the medical tool that is hidden from view as an extension of a portion of the real medical tool that is not hidden;
- wherein the displaying comprises displaying with depth cues comprising eye focus accommodation corresponding to:
- a first depth within the real internal organ, and a second depth within the real medical tool.
A system for producing an image comprising visual representations of a real internal organ of a patient and a real medical tool which are at least partially hidden from view in the real-world by the patient's body, the image depicting the internal organ and the medical tool as visible, and further as located in space at the same real-world positions as the respective real internal organ and the real medical tool, the system comprising:
- a. a display for displaying an image;
- b. a circuitry adapted to:
- i. obtain a three-dimensional (3D) location in space of an imaging device relative to a display, and at least a portion of an internal organ of a patient;
- ii. track a location and orientation in space of a medical tool;
- iii. generate locations of the internal organ and the medical tool relative to the display, based on the dataset and the tracked location of the medical tool;
- iv. generate the visual representations of the at least a portion of the internal organ and the portion of the medical tool that are hidden from view;
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- v. produce the image including the visual representations positioned based on the generated locations;
- vi. providing instruction to the display to display the image:
- such that the visual representations appear in co-registration with their respective real-world internal organ and medical tool;
- the visual representation of the portion of the medical tool that is hidden from view appears as an extension of a portion of the real medical tool that is not hidden;
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- with depth cues comprising eye focus accommodation corresponding to:
- a first depth within the real internal organ, and a second depth within the real medical tool.
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