US 12,465,194 B2
Surgical system including a non-white light general illuminator
Jeffrey DiCarlo, Austin, TX (US); Stephen J. Blumenkranz, Los Altos, CA (US); Brian D. Hoffman, Mountain View, CA (US); Geoff Richmond, Las Vegas, NV (US); and Tao Zhao, Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Filed by Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 4, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/230,310.
Application 18/230,310 is a continuation of application No. 17/158,976, filed on Jan. 26, 2021, granted, now 11,759,093.
Application 17/158,976 is a continuation of application No. 16/682,940, filed on Nov. 13, 2019, granted, now 10,932,649, issued on Mar. 2, 2021.
Application 16/682,940 is a continuation of application No. 15/126,978, granted, now 10,506,914, issued on Dec. 17, 2019, previously published as PCT/US2015/020893, filed on Mar. 17, 2015.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/954,512, filed on Mar. 17, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2023/0371783 A1, Nov. 23, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04N 9/47 (2006.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/06 (2006.01); A61B 34/35 (2016.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01); A61B 90/30 (2016.01); G06T 7/90 (2017.01); H04N 23/10 (2023.01); H04N 23/72 (2023.01); A61B 34/30 (2016.01)
CPC A61B 1/000095 (2022.02) [A61B 1/00193 (2013.01); A61B 1/0638 (2013.01); A61B 1/0655 (2022.02); A61B 34/35 (2016.02); A61B 90/30 (2016.02); A61B 90/37 (2016.02); G06T 7/90 (2017.01); H04N 23/10 (2023.01); H04N 23/72 (2023.01); A61B 34/30 (2016.02); A61B 2090/371 (2016.02); G06T 2207/30004 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A system comprising:
one or more processors; and
memory storing executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause an apparatus to perform a process comprising:
configuring an illuminator to illuminate a scene with non-white light, the illuminator comprising a plurality of color component illumination sources and the non-white light comprising light other than white light and generated by a combination of light output by the plurality of color component illumination sources;
controlling a camera to capture, in a plurality of color channels of the camera, a frame of the scene illuminated with the non-white light; and
adjusting, based on the configuring the illuminator to illuminate the scene with non-white light, pixel values of a color channel of the camera in the frame of the scene to decrease noise of the color channel in the frame of the scene.