Maintaining neighboring contextual awareness with zoom

A system comprising:

• an image capture device configured to acquire at least one frame of a surgical site;
• and
• one or more processors, operatively coupled to the image capture device, the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
• identifying, based on the at least one frame of the surgical site, an area of interest within a visual output of the surgical site;
• performing a zoom operation on the area of interest to generate a magnified area of interest;
• determining, based on an amount of zoom associated with the zoom operation, an occluded region around the area of interest within the visual output, wherein the occluded region is a region of the visual output generated based on a difference between the magnified area of interest and the area of interest within the visual output prior to performing the zoom operation;
• applying a non-linear compression to the occluded region of the visual output to generate a compression zone within the magnified area of interest, wherein the compression zone has a magnification that varies based on radial distance, an inner portion of the compression zone having a first magnification based on a magnification of the magnified area of interest and an outer portion of the compression zone having a second magnification based on a magnification of a remainder of the visual output;
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• updating the magnified area of interest by replacing at least one pixel of the occluded region with at least one pixel of the compression zone.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to perform operations comprising:

• identifying an area of interest within a visual output of a surgical site;
• performing a zoom operation on the area of interest to generate a magnified area of interest;
• determining, based on an amount of zoom associated with the zoom operation, an occluded region around the area of interest within the visual output, wherein the occluded region is a region of the visual output generated based on a difference between the magnified area of interest and the area of interest within the visual output prior to performing the zoom operation;
• applying a non-linear compression to the occluded region of the visual output to generate a compression zone within the magnified area of interest, wherein the compression zone has a magnification that varies based on radial distance, an inner portion of the compression zone having a first magnification based on a magnification of the magnified area of interest and an outer portion of the compression zone having a second magnification based on a magnification of a remainder of the visual output;
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• updating the magnified area of interest by replacing at least one pixel of the occluded region with at least one pixel of the compression zone.