US 11,911,003 B2
Simultaneous white light and hyperspectral light imaging systems
Ian E. McDowall, Woodside, CA (US); Jeffrey M. DiCarlo, Austin, TX (US); Brian D. Hoffman, Mountain View, CA (US); and William Jason Culman, Santa Cruz, CA (US)
Assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Appl. No. 16/326,804
Filed by Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
PCT Filed Sep. 8, 2017, PCT No. PCT/US2017/050758
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 20, 2019,
PCT Pub. No. WO2018/049215, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 15, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/385,700, filed on Sep. 9, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2019/0200848 A1, Jul. 4, 2019
Int. Cl. A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/04 (2006.01); A61B 1/06 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 34/00 (2016.01); A61B 34/20 (2016.01); A61B 34/35 (2016.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01); A61B 90/30 (2016.01); G02B 27/10 (2006.01); G06V 20/20 (2022.01); A61B 34/30 (2016.01)
CPC A61B 1/00193 (2013.01) [A61B 1/0005 (2013.01); A61B 1/00186 (2013.01); A61B 1/04 (2013.01); A61B 1/042 (2013.01); A61B 1/043 (2013.01); A61B 1/0638 (2013.01); A61B 5/0075 (2013.01); A61B 34/00 (2016.02); A61B 34/20 (2016.02); A61B 34/35 (2016.02); A61B 90/30 (2016.02); A61B 90/361 (2016.02); G02B 27/1006 (2013.01); G06V 20/20 (2022.01); A61B 2034/301 (2016.02); A61B 2090/371 (2016.02); G06V 2201/03 (2022.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A surgical system comprising:
an illuminator comprising a white light illumination source and a hyperspectral illumination source;
a camera having a sensor assembly, the sensor assembly comprising a first image capture sensor and a second image capture sensor, the first image capture sensor configured to capture a sequence of visible color frames and the second image capture sensor configured to capture a sequence of hyperspectral frames; and
a controller configured to create a composite hyperspectral frame from a plurality of hyperspectral frames in the sequence of hyperspectral frames, the plurality of hyperspectral frames captured from a plurality of different camera locations and at a same waveband of hyperspectral light, and associate the composite hyperspectral frame with a visible color frame in the sequence of visible color frames.