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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2019
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Geoffrey A. Richmond, San Jose, CA (US);
Brian D. Hoffman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A lighting emulation system accesses an image that is captured by an imaging device and that depicts an operational scene illuminated by close-range light. The lighting emulation system accesses a depth map of the operational scene that includes depth data corresponding to each pixel in the image. Based on the depth map, the lighting emulation system determines a far-range lighting coefficient for each pixel in the image. Specifically, the far-range lighting coefficient for each respective pixel is determined based on the corresponding depth data included in the depth map for that respective pixel. Based on the image and the far-range lighting coefficient for each pixel in the image, the lighting emulation system generates a processed image depicting the operational scene as illuminated by far-range lighting, and provides the processed image for presentation on a display screen.