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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2021
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
A. Jonathan McLeod, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Maximilian H. Allan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mahdi Azizian, San Jose, CA (US);
Daniel Proksch, San Jose, CA (US);
Pourya Shirazian, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
An exemplary contextual assistance system identifies, during a surgical procedure, an operational context of the surgical procedure while a particular object is present at a surgical site depicted by a first version of an image. Based on the identified operational context, the contextual assistance system augments a depiction of the particular object within a second version of the image that is presented to a user associated with the surgical procedure. Corresponding systems and methods are also disclosed.