US 12,408,817 B2
Steerable endoscope system with augmented view
Peter Douglas Colin Inglis, Boulder, CO (US); and Derek Scot Tata, Longmont, CO (US)
Assigned to Covidien AG, (CH)
Filed by Covidien AG, Neuhausen am Reinfall (CH)
Filed on Nov. 30, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/524,496.
Application 18/524,496 is a division of application No. 17/089,258, filed on Nov. 4, 2020, granted, now 11,871,904.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/951,512, filed on Dec. 20, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/932,571, filed on Nov. 8, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2024/0090751 A1, Mar. 21, 2024
Int. Cl. A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/005 (2006.01); A61B 1/05 (2006.01); A61B 34/10 (2016.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01); A61B 90/50 (2016.01)
CPC A61B 1/0005 (2013.01) [A61B 1/00016 (2013.01); A61B 1/00018 (2013.01); A61B 1/00045 (2013.01); A61B 1/0051 (2013.01); A61B 1/05 (2013.01); A61B 34/10 (2016.02); A61B 1/009 (2022.02); A61B 2034/105 (2016.02); A61B 2090/365 (2016.02); A61B 2090/502 (2016.02)] 17 Claims
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1. A computer-controlled endoscope system, comprising:
an endoscope comprising a steerable distal tip with a camera producing that produces an image signal and an orientation sensor that produces an orientation signal;
a first display comprising a hardware screen depicting that depicts images from the image signal; and
a second display comprising an augmented reality visualization, wherein the augmented reality visualization comprises a composite view of computer-generated graphics overlaid on a real-world field of view, wherein the computer-generated graphics comprise:
an anatomical model;
an endoscope marker positioned in the anatomical model according to the orientation signal;
a first illumination depicting a real-time direction of view of the camera; and
a second illumination depicting where the endoscope has previously traveled.