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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2021
Applicant:
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Jeffrey DiCarlo, Austin, TX (US);
Stephen J. Blumenkranz, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Brian D. Hoffman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Geoff Richmond, San Jose, CA (US);
Tao Zhao, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/06 (2006.01); A61B 90/30 (2016.01); H04N 23/10 (2023.01); H04N 23/72 (2023.01); A61B 34/35 (2016.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01); G06T 7/90 (2017.01); A61B 34/30 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/000095 (2022.02); A61B 1/00193 (2013.01); A61B 1/0638 (2013.01); A61B 1/0655 (2022.02); A61B 34/35 (2016.02); A61B 90/30 (2016.02); A61B 90/37 (2016.02); G06T 7/90 (2017.01); H04N 23/10 (2023.01); H04N 23/72 (2023.01); A61B 34/30 (2016.02); A61B 2090/371 (2016.02); G06T 2207/30004 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus may configure an illuminator to illuminate a scene with non-white light and control a camera to capture, in a plurality of color channels of the camera, a frame of the scene illuminated with the non-white light. The apparatus may adjust a signal of a color channel of the camera in the frame of the scene based on the non-white light.