Insight Medical Systems, Inc.

Andrew Philip Hartman

Nicholas Van Der Walt

Matthew William Ryan

Jonathan Kirk Nielsen

David Jacob Mayman

Described here are self-contained surgical navigation systems which include a head-worn display device to be worn by a user during surgery. The system includes a display generator for generating a visual display on the display device, and a sensor suite having at least one tracking camera. The system further includes a support module including: a user-replaceable, modular battery that is reversibly insertable into a housing of the support module, and a processor unit configured to receive data from the sensor suite and calculate a position and an orientation of at least one marker. The support module is electrically coupled to the head-worn display device to provide power and data to the head-worn display device. The display device and the support module together comprise the entire sensing and computing capability of the system, without requiring external sensors, cameras, computers, or other electrical equipment.

Systems and methods for sensory augmentation in medical procedures

The present invention provides a mixed reality surgical navigation system () to be worn by a user () during a surgical procedure comprising: a display device (), to be worn by a user () during a surgical procedure, comprising a processor unit (), a display generator (), a sensor suite () having at least one camera () or depth sensor wherein the processing unit () creates a reference surface map () of an exposed surface () of an anatomical object () with data received from the sensor suite (); the processing unit () establishes a reference frame () relative to the sensor suite () for the reference surface map (); orientation of the reference frame () is established by creating additional surface maps () of other anatomical features () of the anatomical object (); the processing unit () tracks a pose of the anatomical object () relative to the system () by creating a displaced surface map () of the exposed surface () and rotating and translating the displaced surface map () and reference frame () to achieve a best fit to the reference surface map ().

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Andrew Philip Hartman