Intel Corporation

Stryker Corporation

John Thomas Shen

Hong Wang

Gautham N Chinya

Richard A Hankins

Per H Hammarlund

Bryant E Bigbee

Baiju V Patel

Xiang Chris Zou

Benjamin H Feingold

Prashant Sethi

Shivnandan D Kaushik

Xinmin Tian

Perry H Wang

Anil Aggarwal

James Paul Held

Jason W Brandt

Milind Baburao Girkar

Gad Shlomo Sheaffer

Scott Dion Rodgers

Sanjiv M Shah

Hong Jiang

Edward Thomas Grochowski

Wei Ey Li

Amit A Mahadik

Dion Rodgers

Jamison D Collins

Yuval Yosef

Ajay Ramesh

Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai

Quinn Able Jacobson

Ralph Michael Kling

Doron Orenstein

Chris J Newburn

Trung Am Diep

Bryan P Black

Daniel M Lavery

Vasudev Nambakam

Christopher J Hughes

Guei-Yuan Lueh

Youfeng Wu

Ronny Ronen

Christopher B Wilkerson

Ittai Anati

Narayan Biswal

James B Crossland

Darrell D Boggs

David Sehr

Asit K Mallick

John L Reid

Ryan N Rakvic

David B Bennett

Ed Grochowski

Shiv Kaushik

William Huei Liang Chang

Gerolf F Hoflehner

David K Poulsen

Murali M Annavaram

Yoav Talgam

Rohitkumar Godhani

Mithun Gundi

Robert L Jones, Iii

Bryan Larson

Anwar Ghuloum

Piyush N Desai

Shih-wei Liao

Ramanan Paramasivan

Brandon B Hunter

Brian D Bailey

Alejandro Ramirez

Douglas M Carmean

Gansha Wu

Paul M Petersen

Edward A Brekelbaum

Roni Rosner

James Charles Abel

Steve Shih-wei Liao

Yong-fong Lee

Larry O Smith

Satish Narayanasamy

Tor M Aamodt

Marsha Eng

Dongkeun Kim

Yoav Almog

Grant E Haab

Guilherme D Ottoni

Hideki Saito

Anil Aggawal

Suraj Bhat

Joshua Talbert

Richard Grove

Shivanandan Kaushik

Tor Aamodt

Naftali Schwartz

Natalie D Enright

Xinmin Tran

Porus S Khajotia

Ming W Choy

Hassan H Farid

Lauren A Stamper

Dan Lavery

A method of imaging tissue of a subject using an electronic rolling shutter imager includes sequentially resetting rows of pixels of the rolling shutter imager from a first row to a last row for a first amount of time; illuminating the tissue of the subject with illumination light over an illumination period that begins once the last row of the rolling shutter imager has been reset and lasts for at least the first amount of time; accumulating charge at the rows of pixels over at least the illumination period based on light that is received from the tissue of the subject while the tissue of the subject is illuminated with the illumination light; sequentially reading charge accumulated at the rows of pixels from the first row to the last row once the illumination period has ended; and generating an image frame from the rows of pixels.

Systems and methods for medical imaging using a rolling shutter imager

A system includes an illumination source and an imaging apparatus that includes an electronic rolling shutter imager and is configured for sequentially resetting rows of pixels of the rolling shutter imager from a first row to a last row, sequentially reading charge accumulated at the rows of pixels from the first row to the last row, wherein the first row is read after resetting the last row, controlling the illumination source to illuminate the tissue of the subject with illumination light for an illumination period that lasts longer than a vertical blanking period, wherein the vertical blanking period is the period from the resetting of the last row to the reading of the first row, and generating an image frame from the readings of charge accumulated at the rows of pixels, wherein at least one reading of charge accumulated at a row of pixels is removed or replaced.

A method of providing a visual indication that information is being saved or broadcast includes providing at least one recording device for obtaining the information, providing a system for saving and/or broadcasting the information obtained from the at least one recording device, providing at least one monitor for viewing the information, providing a plurality of visual indications, and activating the plurality of visual indications when the information is being saved or broadcast.

Efficient surgical center workflow procedures

A method of using an endoscopic system includes generating, by a light system, electromagnetic waves, the light system including a source of imaging light and a separate source of heating light; directing the electromagnetic waves from the light system to a window at a distal end of an endoscope; determining if the window of the endoscope is configured to allow a first portion of the electromagnetic waves to pass therethrough while absorbing a second portion of the electromagnetic waves in order to heat the window; allowing or not allowing activation of the source of heating light depending on if the window of the endoscope is determined to be configured to allow the first portion of the electromagnetic waves to pass therethrough while absorbing the second portion of the electromagnetic waves.

Anti-fogging device for endoscope

A method of communicating with a slave device includes sending a first device discovery message from the communicator to the slave device using a first communication protocol; if the slave device responds to the first device discovery message using the first communication protocol, establishing communication between the slave device and a control device using the first communication protocol; if the slave device does not respond to the first device discovery message using the first communication protocol, sending a second device discovery message from the communicator to the slave device using a second communication protocol; and if the slave device responds to the second device discovery message using the second communication protocol, establishing communication between the slave device and the control device using the second communication protocol.

Method of wireless discovery and networking of medical devices in care environments

A system for displaying medical imaging data comprising one or more data inputs, one or more processors, and one or more displays, wherein the one or more data inputs are configured for receiving first image data generated by a first medical imaging device, wherein the first image data comprises a field of view (FOV) portion and a non-FOV portion, and the one or more processors are configured for identifying the non-FOV portion of the first image data and generating cropped first image data by removing at least a portion of the non-FOV portion of the first image data, and transmitting the cropped first image data for display in a first portion of the display and additional information for display in a second portion of the display.

Systems and methods for displaying medical imaging data

A method of imaging tissue of a subject using an electronic rolling shutter imager includes sequentially resetting rows of pixels of the rolling shutter imager from a first row to a last row, sequentially reading charge accumulated at the rows of pixels from the first row to the last row, wherein the first row is read after resetting the last row, illuminating the tissue of the subject with illumination light for an illumination period that lasts longer than a vertical blanking period, wherein the vertical blanking period is the period from the resetting of the last row to the reading of the first row, and generating an image frame from the readings of charge accumulated at the rows of pixels, wherein at least one reading of charge accumulated at a row of pixels is removed or replaced to generate the image frame.

Anti-fogging system for an endoscope including an endoscope having an outer housing, an imaging arrangement, and a distal window. A filter lens is located at the distal window, with the filter lens allowing a first portion of electromagnetic light to pass therethrough while absorbing a second portion of electromagnetic light in order to heat the filter lens.

A system for automatically establishing a network. The system includes a main device group including a main wireless transceiver device, a control device and a first network interface and a secondary device group including a secondary wireless transceiver device, a secondary device group slave device and a second network interface. The main wireless transceiver device wirelessly communicating with the secondary wireless transceiver device to instruct the main device group and the secondary device group to form a network wherein the control device communicates with the secondary device group slave device over the first network interface and the second network interface, respectively. The control device wirelessly controls functions of the secondary device group slave device with instructions sent over the network. The main wireless transceiver device only wirelessly communicates with the secondary wireless transceiver device when the main wireless transceiver device and the secondary wireless transceiver device are in a location.

An endoscopic system including an endoscope, a light source for the endoscope and at least one image sensor for capturing a plurality of images of a body cavity. The light source is configured to emit light from the endoscope and into the body cavity such that the light is reflected off of a plurality of locations in the body cavity. The system also includes a control system for controlling both the light source and the at least one image sensor to vary parameters of the light source and the at least one image sensor such that the plurality of images have underexposed and overexposed regions. The endoscopic system could alternatively include a variable-attenuator element device adjacent the image sensor and configured to be located between the body cavity and the image sensor for capturing a single clear image with the image sensor.

System for obtaining clear endoscope images

A method of setting up an operating room including placing at least one surgical device on at least one surface in the operating room, capturing an image of the at least one surgical device with a camera, comparing actual attributes of the at least one surgical device determined using the image captured by the camera with desired attributes of the at least one surgical device stored in a digital preference storage using a computer system, and issuing instruction information of the at least one surgical device in the operating room, the instruction information being dependent on results of the step of comparing.

Method and system for surgical instrumentation setup and user preferences

In an embodiment, a method is provided. The method includes managing user-level threads on a first instruction sequencer in response to executing user-level instructions on a second instruction sequencer that is under control of an application level program. A first user-level thread is run on the second instruction sequencer and contains one or more user level instructions. A first user level instruction has at least 1) a field that makes reference to one or more instruction sequencers or 2) implicitly references with a pointer to code that specifically addresses one or more instruction sequencers when the code is executed.

Mechanism for instruction set based thread execution of a plurality of instruction sequencers

Embodiments of the invention provide a method of creating, based on an operating-system-scheduled thread running on an operating-system-visible sequencer and using an instruction set extension, a persistent user-level thread to run on an operating-system-sequestered sequencer independently of context switch activities on the operating-system-scheduled thread. The operating-system-scheduled thread and the persistent user-level thread may share a common virtual address space. Embodiments of the invention may also provide a method of causing a service thread running on an additional operating-system-visible sequencer to provide operating system services to the persistent user-level thread. Embodiments of the invention may further provide apparatus, system, and machine-readable medium thereof.

Apparatus, system, and method for persistent user-level thread

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

John Thomas Shen