US 12,439,001 B2
Systems and methods for efficient transmission of imaging metadata
Benjamin Hyman Feingold, San Francisco, CA (US); and Brandon B. Hunter, Hollister, CA (US)
Assigned to Stryker Corporation, Portage, MI (US)
Filed by Stryker Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI (US)
Filed on Dec. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/147,679.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/294,822, filed on Dec. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0209012 A1, Jun. 29, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 7/08 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 7/08 (2013.01) 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for transmission of imaging metadata, comprising:
a first sensor configured to capture audiovisual data;
a data transmission device comprising one or more processors configured to cause the data transmission device to:
receive the captured audiovisual data from the first sensor;
receive first metadata, wherein the first metadata is metadata of a first type relating to one or both of acquisition and processing of the audiovisual data;
generate a data structure corresponding to a first frame of a video feed, wherein the data structure is generated in accordance with a predefined data specification, wherein generating the data structure comprises:
setting an indicator in the data structure to indicate that a second type of metadata relating to video format should not be read from a first field in the data structure, wherein the indicator comprises a bit in the data structure that indicates, according to an audiovisual data transport protocol, whether the first field should be read for video format data; and
writing the first metadata to the first field in the data structure; and
transmit the data structure along with the captured audiovisual data.