US 11,910,997 B2
Apparatus, systems, and methods for intraoperative visualization
Bernhard Adolf Fuerst, Mountain View, CA (US); Berk Gonenc, Cupertino, CA (US); Risto Kojcev, Cupertino, CA (US); Pablo Garcia Kilroy, Menlo Park, CA (US); Benjamin Sanker, San Jose, CA (US); and Felix Bork, Schnuerpflingen (DE)
Assigned to VERB SURGICAL INC., Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed by Verb Surgical Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/046,794.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/256,514, filed on Oct. 15, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0127774 A1, Apr. 27, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 21/2187 (2011.01); H04N 21/431 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 19/59 (2014.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01)
CPC A61B 1/00045 (2013.01) [A61B 1/00009 (2013.01); A61B 1/00027 (2013.01); A61B 1/00055 (2013.01); A61B 90/361 (2016.02); H04N 19/59 (2014.11); H04N 21/2187 (2013.01); H04N 21/4312 (2013.01); H04N 21/8146 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A processor-implemented method comprising:
receiving, one or more graphics streams with an alpha channel, wherein the graphics streams comprise one or more graphics frames;
receiving at least one first intraoperative live video stream during an intraoperative procedure, the first intraoperative live video stream comprising a plurality of live video frames, the at least one first intraoperative live video stream being received from a medical device;
storing at least one current graphics frame into a first buffer;
blending the at least one current graphics frame from the first buffer with at least one current live video frame of the plurality of live video frames into at least one blended frame; and
initiating, in real-time during the intraoperative procedure, display of the at least one current live video frame, in response to a contemporaneous determination that the blending would result in non-display of the at least one current live video frame.