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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2023
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ian E. McDowall, Woodside, CA (US);
Christopher J. Hasser, Los Altos, CA (US);
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
An illustrative method may include receiving images of a site captured at a same time by a camera, the images comprising a single visible color component image, a first non-visible image associated with first excitation illumination having a first wavelength outside a visible spectrum, and a second non-visible image associated with second excitation illumination having a second wavelength outside the visible spectrum and different than the first wavelength; generating, based on the single visible color component image, a monochromatic image; generating, based on the single visible color component image and the first non-visible image, a first alternate image representative of a first alternate imaging characteristic of the site; generating, based on the single visible color component image and the second non-visible image, a second alternate image representative of a second alternate imaging characteristic of the site; and displaying the monochromatic image combined with the first and second alternate images.