The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.

The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2023

Filed:

Jan. 16, 2020
Applicant:

Stryker Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI (US);

Inventors:

William Huei Liang Chang, Milpitas, CA (US);

Bryan Larson, San Jose, CA (US);

John Shen, San Jose, CA (US);

Benjamin Feingold, Tucson, AZ (US);

Ajay Ramesh, Pleasanton, CA (US);

Assignee:

Stryker Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/374 (2011.01); A61B 1/045 (2006.01); A61B 1/04 (2006.01); A61B 1/06 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); H04N 5/353 (2011.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01); H04N 5/235 (2006.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/045 (2013.01); A61B 1/000095 (2022.02); A61B 1/043 (2013.01); A61B 1/0684 (2013.01); G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); H04N 5/2256 (2013.01); H04N 5/2354 (2013.01); H04N 5/3532 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10068 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30004 (2013.01); H04N 2005/2255 (2013.01);
Abstract

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.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Loading…