US 12,469,181 B2
Procedure information sharing and performance using mixed and augmented reality
Craig Black, Florence, SC (US); Charles Robert Lucasiewicz, Florence, SC (US); Craig Russell, League City, TX (US); Hitesh Mehta, Florence, SC (US); Marco Zambetti, League City, TX (US); Mike Prosser, Mount Pleasant, SC (US); and Chris Duneske, Kirkwood, MO (US)
Assigned to DeGen Medical, Inc., Florence, SC (US)
Filed by DeGen Medical, Inc., Florence, SC (US)
Filed on Jan. 4, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/568,395.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/209,612, filed on Jun. 11, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/133,627, filed on Jan. 4, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0270300 A1, Aug. 25, 2022
Int. Cl. G16H 30/20 (2018.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01); G06F 3/14 (2006.01); G06T 11/00 (2006.01)
CPC G06T 11/00 (2013.01) [A61B 90/36 (2016.02); G06F 3/1454 (2013.01); A61B 2090/365 (2016.02); G06T 2200/24 (2013.01); G06T 2210/41 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for sharing information about a procedure, comprising:
using a mixed reality system to display a mixed reality image comprising a live view of a first real world environment and a virtual element not present in the first real world environment, the virtual element comprising a representation of information related to said procedure;
instructing an information recipient comprising an individual human being to use an augmented reality system in data communication with the mixed reality system to view an augmented reality image comprising a live view of a second real world environment and the virtual element; and
interacting with the virtual element to create a transformed virtual element and cause the mixed reality system to replace the virtual element in the mixed reality image and the augmented reality image with the transformed virtual element.