US 12,458,466 B2
Flexible and tensioned camera apparatus with electronic module system for enabling maneuverable stereoscopic field of view
Joshua Aferzon, Avon, CT (US); and Lee Nicholson, Unionville (CA)
Assigned to Mantis Health, Inc., Stamford, CT (US)
Filed by Mantis Health, Inc., Stamford, CT (US)
Filed on Mar. 31, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/129,601.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/326,826, filed on Apr. 2, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0310111 A1, Oct. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. A61B 90/00 (2016.01)
CPC A61B 90/361 (2016.02) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus to enable maneuverable stereoscopic field of view,
the apparatus comprising:
an articulating arm configured to be maneuverable with respect the field of view;
a camera head including a first and a second camera, the first and the second camera configured to respectively capture first image data and second image data, the camera head mounted on the articulating arm;
an electronics module connected to the camera head, the electronics module comprising;
a processor; and
a memory communicatively connected to the processor, wherein the memory contains instructions that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to:
receive the first image data and the second image data from the first camera and the second camera of the camera head;
process the first image data to form a first sub-image and process the second image data to form a second sub-image;
utilize a digital image height adjustment function that crops different portions of the first and second sub-images of the first image data and second image data and thereafter vertically shifting the cropped first and second sub-images so that a central axis of the first and second sub-images are colinear and further wherein the processor re-centers the first and second sub-images creating a shared position of the first and second sub-images in the first image data and the second image data so that stereoscopic video data is formed; and
transmit the stereoscopic video data.