Surgical system with multi-modality image display

A surgical system comprising:

• a processor and memory coupled to the processor, the memory storing executable instructions to cause the surgical system to:
• produce a first image modality of a surgical scene that provides a first type of enhancement to image data received by one or more cameras;
• produce a second image modality of the surgical scene that provides a second type of enhancement to image data received by the one or more cameras;
• stitch together a first portion of the first image modality and a second portion of the second image modality to produce a stitch format;
• and
• display the stitch format in a selected region of a display.

A surgical system comprising:

• a processor and memory coupled to the processor, the memory storing executable instructions to cause the surgical system to:
• produce a first image modality of a surgical scene that provides a first type of enhancement to image data received by one or more cameras;
• produce a second image modality of the surgical scene that provides a second type of enhancement to image data received by the one or more cameras;
• select a second portion of the second modality to display at a reduced size within a first portion of the first image modality;
• and
• display the first image modality of the surgical scene within a region of a display and the selected portion of the second image modality of the surgical scene at the reduced size within the first portion of the first image modality

A surgical system comprising:

• a processor and memory coupled to the processor and storing executable instructions to cause the surgical system to:
• receive surgical stage information;
• produce a first image modality of a surgical scene from image data received by one or more cameras, the first image modality selected from one of a plurality types of image enhancements;
• produce a second image modality of the surgical scene from image data received by one or more cameras, the second image modality selected from a different one of the plurality types of image enhancements;
• and
• display simultaneously at least the first image modality of a first portion of the surgical scene within a region of a display and the second image modality of a second portion the surgical scene within a different region of the display.