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AssigneeNavigate Surgical Technologies, Inc.
InventorsEhud (Udi) Daon, Martin Gregory Beckett
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The present invention relates to a tool system comprising a handheld implement having a passive vectorized tracking marker permanently integrated with the implement at a predetermined location on the implement in a predetermined orientation with respect to the implement; and a database comprising geometric information describing the at least one of a rotationally asymmetric shape of the tracking marker and a rotationally asymmetric pattern disposed on the tracking marker. The system may further comprise: a tracker configured for obtaining image information about the tracking marker when the tracking marker is in a field of view of the tracker; and a controller having a processor and memory, the controller in communication with the database and the tracker, the processor programmable for receiving and processing image information from the tracker; accessing the database to retrieve the geometric information; and comparing the image information with the geometric information. The handheld implement may be three-dimensionally tracked by the tracker.
A handheld implement having a three-dimensionally trackable location and three-dimensionally trackable orientation, the implement comprising a passive vectorized tracking marker permanently integrated with the implement, the vectorized tracking marker integrated into the implement at a predetermined location on the implement in a predetermined orientation with respect to the implement, the tracking marker having a rotationally asymmetric pattern of elements disposed on contrasting tiles on the tracking marker wherein the implement is configured and arranged for a tracker to three-dimensionally track the location of the implement and to three-dimensionally track the orientation of the implement.
A trackable tool system comprising:
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