US 11,944,265 B2
Medical imaging systems and methods
Robert G. Stricko, III, San Francisco, CA (US); Jacob L. Divone, Mountain View, CA (US); and Glenn C. Stante, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Filed by Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 14, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/993,893.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/888,244, filed on Aug. 16, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0045618 A1, Feb. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/06 (2006.01); G02B 30/20 (2020.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01)
CPC A61B 1/00096 (2013.01) [A61B 1/0005 (2013.01); A61B 1/0676 (2013.01); G02B 30/20 (2020.01); G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10068 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A medical imaging system, comprising:
an imaging device that includes
a visible light camera configured to obtain image data representative of a two-dimensional visible light image of a scene; and
a depth sensor separate from the visible light camera and configured to obtain depth data representative of a depth map of the scene; and
an image processing system communicatively coupled to the imaging device and configured to:
generate, based on the image data and the depth data, a right-side perspective image of the scene and a left-side perspective image of the scene that together form a stereoscopic image of the scene;
instruct a first display device to display the right-side perspective image of the scene and a second display device to display the left-side perspective image of the scene,
register, based on the depth data, the stereoscopic image of the scene with a three-dimensional model of anatomy within the scene, and
direct the first and second display devices to display, based on the registering, the three-dimensional model together with the right-side and left-side perspective images of the scene.