Cmr Surgical Limited

Mark Clifford Slack

Luke David Ronald Hares

Paul Christopher Roberts

Rupert Menzies

Andrew Robert Mawby

A surgical robotic system for augmenting a representation of at least a portion of a surgical site for aiding in orienting the representation is disclosed. The system can receive an imaging device signal indicative of the location and orientation of an imaging device relative to a surgical site. The system can augment a representation of at least a portion of the surgical site depending on the received imaging device signal. The system further can receive a further imaging device signal indicative of an updated location and/or orientation of the imaging device. The system can determine a change in at least one of the location and orientation of the imaging device in dependence on the imaging device signal and the further imaging device signal. The system additionally can update the augmented representation in dependence on the determined change; and a display configured to display at least part of the augmented representation.

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Methods and systems for automatically augmenting an endoscope video for a task based on status data that describes the status of a surgical robot system that was used to at least partially perform the task. The system comprises an event detector and an augmenter. The event detector is configured to: receive the status data; and identify one or more patterns in the status data that indicate an event occurred during the task. The augmenter is configured to receive an endoscope video captured during the task, the endoscope video being time synchronised with the status data; and in response to the event detector identifying a pattern in the status data that indicates an event occurred, automatically augment metadata that forms part of or is associated with the endoscope video with information identifying the event and the time the event occurred with respect to the endoscope video.

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Cambridge, United Kingdom

Mark Clifford Slack