Method for operating a surgical system
AssigneeOlympus Winter & Ibe GmbH
InventorsHendrik TIMMERMANN, Andreas MUECKNER
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Abstract
A method including: upon or during the insertion of an endoscope shaft into a trocar sleeve, detecting first brightness values at a distal end of the endoscope shaft by an image sensor over time and detecting a first temporal brightness profile depending on the detected first brightness values and the time, and/or upon or during the withdrawal of the endoscope shaft from the trocar sleeve, detecting second brightness values at the distal end of the endoscope shaft by the image sensor over time and detecting a second temporal brightness profile depending on the detected second brightness values and the time.
Claims19
A method comprising one or more of:
- upon or during insertion of an endoscope shaft into a trocar sleeve, detecting first brightness values at a distal end of the endoscope shaft by an image sensor over time and detecting a first temporal brightness profile depending on the detected first brightness values and the time, and
- upon or during withdrawal of the endoscope shaft from the trocar sleeve, detecting second brightness values at the distal end of the endoscope shaft by the image sensor over time and detecting a second temporal brightness profile depending on the detected second brightness values and the time.
A surgical system comprising:
- a processor comprising hardware, the processor being configured to one or more of:
- upon or during insertion of an endoscope shaft into a trocar sleeve, detecting first brightness values at a distal end of the endoscope shaft by an image sensor over time and detecting a first temporal brightness profile depending on the detected first brightness values and the time, and
- upon or during withdrawal of the endoscope shaft from the trocar sleeve, detecting second brightness values at the distal end of the endoscope shaft by the image sensor over time and detecting a second temporal brightness profile depending on the detected second brightness values and the time.
Non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that cause a computer to one of:
- upon or during the insertion of the endoscope shaft into the trocar sleeve, detect first brightness values at the distal end of the endoscope shaft by an image sensor over time and detect a first temporal brightness profile depending on the detected first brightness values and the time, and
- upon or during the withdrawal of the endoscope shaft from the trocar sleeve, detect second brightness values at the distal end of the endoscope shaft by the image sensor over time and detect a second temporal brightness profile depending on the detected second brightness values and the time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.