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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2016
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Sander Hans Denissen, Best, NL;
Wilhelmus Henrica Gerarda Maria Van Den, Valkenswaard, NL;
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method and system of visualizing a first sensed shape of a first elongated device () having a first) length and a second sensed shape of a second elongated device () having a second length. The first elongated device () and the second elongated device () are physically linked to one another over at least a part () of the first and second lengths. The first sensed shape and the second sensed shape have been obtained independently of each other. The method comprises the steps: providing one of the first and second sensed shapes as a reference shape and the other of the first and second sensed shapes as a linked shape; determining along the reference shape and the linked shape an overlap region in which the reference shape and the linked shape should match due to a physical overlap of the first and second elongated devices () in this region; copying, in the overlap region, an overlap region reference shape portion to an overlap region linked shape portion so that, in the overlap region, the linked shape is visualized as matching the reference shape.