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US 2024/0390104 A1Published application
Waveband-selective imaging systems and methods
AssigneeIntuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
InventorsJeffrey M. DiCarlo, Ian E. McDowall, Jonathan M. Sorger
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Abstract
An illustrative surgical system may access a plurality of images captured outside a structure within a patient; detect a difference between spectral reflectances of scenes captured in the plurality of images; and identify, based on the detected difference between the spectral reflectances of the scenes captured in the plurality of images, pixels in at least one of the plurality of images that correspond to structure tissue of the structure.
Claims20
A surgical system comprising:
- an illuminator configured to selectively provide white light illumination or one or more separate narrowband light components;
- one or more image capture sensors;
- a display unit;
- and
- a controller configured to:
- cause, while operating in a first mode,
- the illuminator to illuminate a scene with the white light illumination,
- the one or more image capture sensors to capture a first set of one or more images based on the white light illumination reflecting from tissue within the scene, and
- the display unit to display the first set of one or more images;
- switch from operating in the first mode to operating in a second mode;
- cause, while operating in the second mode,
- the illuminator to illuminate the scene with the one or more separate narrowband light components instead of with the white light illumination,
- the one or more image capture sensors to capture a second set of one or more images based on the one or more separate narrowband light components reflecting from tissue within the scene, and
- the display unit to display the second set of one or more images.
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A system comprising:
- a memory storing instructions;
- and
- a processor configured to execute the instructions to perform a process comprising:
- causing, while operating in a first mode,
- an illuminator to illuminate a scene with white light illumination,
- one or more image capture sensors to capture a first set of one or more images based on the white light illumination reflecting from tissue within the scene, and
- a display unit to display the first set of one or more images;
- switching from operating in the first mode to operating in a second mode;
- and
- causing, while operating in the second mode,
- the illuminator to illuminate the scene with one or more separate narrowband light components instead of with the white light illumination,
- the one or more image capture sensors to capture a second set of one or more images based on the one or more separate narrowband light components reflecting from tissue within the scene, and
- the display unit to display the second set of one or more images.
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A method comprising:
- causing, by one or more processors of a surgical system while operating in a first mode, an illuminator to illuminate a scene with white light illumination,
- one or more image capture sensors to capture a first set of one or more images based on the white light illumination reflecting from tissue within the scene, and
- a display unit to display the first set of one or more images;
- switching, by the one or more processors, from operating in the first mode to operating in a second mode;
- and
- causing, by the one or more processors while operating in the second mode,
- the illuminator to illuminate the scene with one or more separate narrowband light components instead of with the white light illumination,
- the one or more image capture sensors to capture a second set of one or more images based on the one or more separate narrowband light components reflecting from tissue within the scene, and
- the display unit to display the second set of one or more images.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.